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...match. Swiftly she informed her husband, Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many of these)-she wrote the book. Of which act, says she: "I couldn't keep up with myself-it was glorious ... I really felt drunk." She had published two books previously...
...part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
...certain love-scenes; Signer Lauri-Volpi (Gallurese) turned himself into a human cornet; Conductor Tullio Serafin imposed upon the wavering score his own electrifying power. At the close of each act, Montemezzi appeared before the curtain, bowed, smiled. On one of these occasions, a lackey delivered to him a floral wreath...
Tremendous crowds lined the streets as troops advanced along them to the doleful strains of the Dead March, their rifles reversed, their legs doing a slow, rhythmic, painful imitation of the goosestep. The sombre field-grey gun-carriage, bedecked with floral tributes, came next, bearing its coffin shrouded in a Union Jack. Behind came the mourners?Lady Stack, Lord Allenby, Lady Allenby, Captain Campbell, Premier Zaghlul, onetime Premier Herbert H. Asquith (on a visit to Egypt), all the members of the Egyptian Cabinet, all the diplomatic representatives. Overhead a squadron of airplanes mournfully circled. At several points, guns belched forth...
...fortress and fined 200 gold marks. Since it was understood, however, that he will be obliged to serve only six months-and then receive a parole for good behavior, his followers received the verdict with loud approval, signalled it from the housetops with wigwagging, deluged Hitler and Ludendorff with floral tributes, cried out: "Down with Von Kahr, Von Lossow, Seisser...