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Isabella received Minister Sickles in her negligee, her huge breasts half-bare, her mane of hair hanging down to her waist. She had had as many men in her life as Sickles had had women-an indiscriminate series of ambassadors, footmen, Italian tenors, cabinet ministers, army privates. Sickles and Isabella reacted like magnet and iron. As a sop to convention, Isabella forthwith converted him to Catholicism, arranged for him a marriage of convenience with one of her ladies in waiting. In Madrid they began to call him "Yankee King of Spain." It was all very perplexing to his friends back...
...know what people were wearing in America. ... It ... might have been Paris, or London, or New York - any place where you find those inter nationals who are still interested in inter national fashion, gossip and an international way of life. The setting was beautiful. Shining silver, crystal, well-groomed footmen, candlelight, soft music. The women were dressed with taste, with charm...
Over the living-room mantle, as in a shrine, hangs a portrait of Woodrow Wil son, by Sir William Orpen, perhaps the best portrait of Wilson ever made. In the ballroom, in pre-rationing days, he some times dined as many as 96 people, to the accompaniment of footmen in bright blue livery...
...born Lady Decies, 71, was worried about manpower. She had skipped back to her native land from her $4-million, 50-room Paris snuggery in 1940 after some 30 years abroad. "How soon do you think the war will be over?" she asked Philadelphia reporters last week. Footmen had always carried her Paris guests from curb to door in sedan chairs, she said, and now-"With one more year of war, there wouldn't be an able-bodied man left in France. . . . God knows who's going to carry my guests...
...laudanum for paregoric," nearly died from the fright of his mistake. In 1890 he shifted to his uncle's drugstore in Chicago and saw a new world he despised. "The 'filthy rich' drove behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned to mix Seidlitz powders in such a way that a glassful would explode "into the nostrils...