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Detective Writer Joseph Hilaire Belloc is French by birth (1870), English by naturalization (1902). Arrogant, self-assured, his parliamentary career was remarkably unsuccessful. A devi for work, he is a genius for play, bringing to it tremendous energy, gargantuan exuberance...
Three days later hopeful Maiden Devi Sharmista journeyed to Barwaha, a seat of the semi-royal family of her fiance. There she was welcomed by a retinue of swarthy nobles riding upon elephants. Deep and throbbing came the pulse of heavy drums...
...esteemed Godavari River, at Gangapur, India. Priests invoked in her behalf the whole pantheon of Hindu deities. At the conclusion of the ceremony she approached the potent High Priest Jagadgur Shankarcharva, touched his feet, received his blessing, and walked away no longer Nancy Ann Miller but the Hindu Maiden Devi Sharmista...
...wedding rites now rapidly ensued, and Colonel Lam Bhate explicitly declared: "For the God of Love, for Wealth, and for the Blessing of Procreation, to you I offer Devi Sharmista." When news of these words reached the bride's grandfather, Mr. Louis Schaefer, in Seattle, he exclaimed: "I'm sorry I wasn't there to give Nancy away. . . . That is a gentleman...
...Devil. Lionel Barrymore's appearance in any show is a signal for a certain quantity of thanksgiving. With his three shows this year-The Piker, Taps, and Man or Devi]-the quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately...