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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his keeper and in six weeks time wrote Les Amours des Eléphants. The German studied all the books and documents written on the elephant, then wrote a work in three volumes, entitled An Introduction to the Study of the Elephant. The Russian retired to his garret, drank quantities of vodka, numerous samovars of tea, produced a small volume : The Elephant-Docs He Exist? The Pole immediately set to work and in six weeks finished a pamphlet called The Elephant and the Polish Question...
Realizing that he had blundered, but not knowing how, M. Tichmenev said: "Help yourselves, Messieurs," drained his glass. The Presidential party drank, drained, departed, having spent exactly four minutes in the pavilion...
...Grand Monarch A. F. Ittner of St. Louis, who strutted in front, at his personal aid, the Cannibal King,* at the Ram of Kamram†; at the flowing robed Islams of the Hindoo Goosh Grotto of Hamilton, Ontario; at the regal representatives of the 46 other grottos. The Prophets drank orange nip on the million dollar pier; listened to concerts, speeches. From Washington came an airplane, bearing a message from President Coolidge to the Grand Monarch; bore back a message from the Grand Monarch to President Coolidge at his summer home...
...Charles H. Mayo, President. Addresses were delivered by Neville Chamberlain, Ambassador Houghton, the Duke of Connaught. Lord Dawson, physician to King George, defined life as "one long innoculation." Others discussed this, that. This party was preceded by one in the garden of the London Hospital, where they danced, ate, drank, talked, smoked. This week they will continue their deliberations...
Many a supper table, that night, kept its candles wagging until the company came back to blow them out and sit down to Derby breakfast with day broad at the windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen...