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...late Queen Victoria became obstinately convinced that her Royal Family is descended from Biblical King David. Today Emperor Power of Trinity is as obstinately convinced that his ancestors sprang from the loins of Biblical King Solomon, son of David. Thus British and Ethiopian royalty would be related by a faint strain of Jewish blood. George V, who does not share his grandmother's enthusiasm for King David as an ancestor, last week let himself be invested by Dr. Martin with the gold chain of the Ethiopian Order of King Solomon, and Queen Mary received the gold chain...
...call, though faint, was strong enough to arouse the tame geese on the place. The old Toulouse gander sent back an answering challenge to his wild cousins, while his mates stretched out their necks and screamed to the top of their long throats. They rushed along the dark ground, beating their wings and tipping the grass with their toes, only to wheel pitifully and try again...
Also getting out, shepherded by sweet-faced Italian nuns with faint mustaches, were numerous bright-eyed little girls of assorted colors, daughters of Italians who have gone native in Ethiopia but made pious provision for their bastards by founding a convent school. Said an Italian consular official as he put the little girls on the train: "They are the future mothers of a new, nobler generation that is going to inhabit the country that was called Ethiopia...
Lily became conscious of her love with panic. When she found herself talking with affected girlishness she was shocked, but felt queerly exalted and lightheaded: "It was not entirely a pleasant sensation, having in it something of the faint excitement and distress that accompanies flying in dreams." Ackerly, a sea captain who had been drafted to do character bits, possessed a quality that Lily considered secretive glamour but which U. S. readers may put down as plain British dullness. Lily was finally ready to run away with him. But after one look at the dingy, unromantic week-end quarters...
...Glass Bill. Said the Gentleman from Virginia: "It's a damn sight better bill than the original." Said Banking & Currency Chairman Fletcher who generally disagrees with Senator Glass: "It's a fairly good compromise and better than I expected." Even Governor Eccles managed to muster something more than faint praise for the new draft. Walter Lippmann was inspired to write...