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Devoted Belgians, grateful again to their able king, recalled with pride that their royal family is the only one in Europe whose members are careless of photographers. King Albert's straddle and the remarkable pictures of Queen Eliza beth being let down backward from inspecting an Egyptian stone inscription last winter are two examples. Recently their daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy, raised one royal leg high over the side of an Italian speedster, in order to climb out. heedless of the fact that lenses were looking...
...They had no club, no ritual, but mint juleps in frosted silver mugs were served them generously. The password: "Where's Brandy Station?" Alexander Fontaine Rose, 84, of Mosby's Brigade, did some spirited dancing. Oldest veteran: John L. Poe, 92, 49th Virginia Cavalry. Honor guest: Mrs. Eliza ("Mother") Crim, famed Confederate nurse at the Battle of Newmarket...
...plantation, Jan. 20, 1854. Start-in-life: a country lawyer. Career: Son of a well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down to 44,000. His reward came when President Cleveland named...
...third act is highly hilarious, in spite of the aged device of the poor girl misplaying the Duchess. There is enough of the Shavian keenness and wit to make it one of the high spots of the play. It is in the part of the renovated Eliza displaying her new culture at tea that Miss Inescort retrieves her ostentatious display of vocal strength of the previous acts. Her highly phonetic and correct, "Not bloody likely" brings the act to a chaotic close...
...part he has set aside for himself in all of his plays. So, in this play he ends with his usual quirk. There is a discourse on the evils of middle class morality, the verbose Doolittle is led to the noose of matrimony, Higgins returns to his phonetics, and Eliza remains a "good" girl...