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Rotundly encased in a black coat, striped pants, and glowing good humor, Winston Churchill beckoned toward the Laborite side of the House of Commons. "We have all," he boomed, "watched with attention, mitigated by occasional fatigue, the twirls, twitchings and convulsions which are taking place on the Front Bench opposite...
Cranach Was Hidden. Going from "castle to castle" between world wars, she restored some 500 works for fellow bluebloods. She learned how to smooth over chipped spots ("like filling a tooth"), repaint damaged hands and noses, replace frayed lining, spruce up dull paint with a coat of bright varnish. As she became more skilled, she repaired masterpieces by Rubens, Tiepolo and Velasquez. Once, working on a dark, somber painting by the 16th century Italian Jacopo Palma, she found a whole covey of saints and angels hiding under the grime. Another time, she was called in to restore an unusual Lucas...
...some 3,000 undergraduates and their dates walked jubilantly across the Anderson bridge many of them sporting raccoon coasts and flasks full of bootlegged whiskey, the CRIMSON chuckled. "Do you see the Coat that fellow is wearing? No it is not His Own. What does that Matter? It might as well be. It is his Roommate's. There are nine of them. All Told, who room together. His roommate, the one who Bought the fur coat I mean, felt he had to have it to keep Up with Everyone Else. Now, it is All he can do to keep...
...cheerful pilgrim's progress from Paris to the Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with romantic anecdotes of beautiful American heiresses, great dukes...
...visitors a 13 to 0 win in the driving rain. Hopelessly cheering till the last play, the man of '27 helped form a soggy 'H' with red and white handker-chiefs, tried lighting a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flash, and snuggled deeper into his raccoon coat. Afterwards he took his date to see the smash hit of the day, John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...