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Since anthropology then consisted mainly of the Greek and Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...
Food for the evening consisted of grapefruit, New York style, cream of tomato, patty of lobster Newburg, new peans, potato croquette, Harvard Club special ice cream, petits fours, and demi tasse. When it was all over, and cigars had passed around the speeches started, at 9 o'clock...
Apotheosis, Last week before an audience of the world's great. Cosmo Gordon Lang achieved the biggest attainable goal of a British prelate. He crowned a King and with holy oil anointed him a demi-priest in God's service. And it was a King of whom he could be proud- dutiful, earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped...
...times this picture borders on the hilarious, but towards the end it gets pretty well tied up in the predicaments Mr. Barrymore must face in order to ensure the welfare of his town, his family, and himself. "A Family Affair" forms a nice appetizer or demi-tasse (depending on where you come in) to the major offering...
...Demi-Anniversary...