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Born on the Island of Hydra in 1855, he adopted a naval career in his earliest youth, and rose to the distinction of twice defeating the Turkish fleet during the Balkan War of 1912-13. An adherent of Diplomat Venizelos, he shared the fortunes of that statesman until...
...were loud in praise of the "medieval color" of Herr Reinhardt's arrangement, of the quality of the musical accompaniment (by Einar Nilson, musical director of The Miracle). Only one commentator ventured to suggest that "most miracle plays are dull. . . ." Everyman amused people very long ago. The earliest edition of the text is that "imprynted at London in Flete Strete by Richarde Pynson prynter to the Kynges moost noble grace" in 1509, but for almost a century before that it had trundled up and down England in creaking "pageant wagons." Entertainments of another sort wandered the countries also...
...everyone knows, the Aga Khan III claims descent from Mohammed and the earliest Persian monarchs. As such, he and his late father and grandfather have rendered invaluable service to Britain by loyally championing the British raj in India and British interests generally throughout Mohammedan countries...
...paint--and it is really not often that the devil slips. And that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without a certain sense of the fitness of things. No doubt he owes much to the fact that his earliest reading had been in the classics, Zane Gray, Jane Austin and Octavus Roy Cohen. But the significant fact remains, gentlemen, that no romantic writer of his ilk could have existed west of Worcester without feeling the subtle and pervading influence of the fin desiecle spirit on his whiskey sours. Changing...
...Polack marveled, then he jumped. He marveled at the Sesquicentennial International Exhibition at Philadelphia, into which he had crawled beneath a fence in advance of the earliest crowds. He jumped when a 21-gun salute boomed the opening of the exposition last week...