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These were the most brilliant flowers of Bloomsbury, the domain of London's intelligentsia that clusters around the British Museum-where Garnett's grandfather was an official-and whose hothouse air Constance (Garnett's mother, translator of War and Peace) breathed into her son. In the present volume Garnett, whom his friends all called "Bunny", tells about World War I, but this is a war reminiscence of a special kind. For Bloomsbury's Bunny was a conscientious objector. In 1914 Rupert, who was soon to write...
...Islamic Domain...
There remains a third circle−a circle which stretches across continents and oceans and which is the domain of our brothers in faith who all, wherever under the sun they may be, turn as we do in the direction of Mecca and whose devout lips speak the same prayers...
...Billion-Franc Bet. Last week, at the start of Deauville's most fashionable fortnight, André prowled his domain from 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. each day, checking the activities of his 2,000 employees (per capita wine allowance: 5 gals. a season), the kitchens that dish out one ton of roast beef and 30 lbs. of caviar a day, the cellars from which 20,000 bottles of champagne flow each season...
Operation of the great park domain, scattered from the West Indies to Alaska and from Maine to Hawaii, is a housekeeping chore of prodigious proportions. The understaffed, overworked Park Service must serve 50 to 60 million tourists a year with facilities set up to handle no more than half that number...