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Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and possessed of an immense curly grey beard, His Lordship has the high Salisbury forehead for which his father was famed. Long rector of Hatfield. Herts, seat of the Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church...
...editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with as much pride and satisfaction as if they had laid a golden egg." Composing never made a living for Berlioz and his double menage. For years he wrote magazine articles but he resented
...14th hole of a sectional golf tournament played at St. Augustine, Fla. in 1925. The man he was playing against hooked his shot, waved his club angrily. The next thing Mr. Evans knew he was lying on the fairway with a painful lump rapidly rising on his forehead. The club-waver was curly-haired Clair Maxwell. Life's president. A year later Mr. Evans quit his sportwriting job and was working for his assailant. He became Life's managing editor, is still its cinema critic...
Artist Pach has a slanting Slavic forehead, a fiery eye, a mustache like an unravelled hawser. A native New Yorker, he studied painting under Leigh Hunt, William Merritt Chase and the late great Robert Henri. He has exhibited frequently with the Independents in Paris and New York. Not so well known is the fact that he is one of the Pachs of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, a business now carried on by Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History...
...about a boy and a girl . . . the boy's name is J. Weatherstrip Reilley. ... He was born during the World War and they called him Weatherstrip because he kept his father out of the draft. The boy has so many wrinkles on his forehead ... he has to screw his hat on his head. . . . On his vest is dangling a golden charm . . . it's a piece of an omelet. . . . He says 'What is that?' And she says 'That is a canvas back duck.' And he says 'Well, take the canvas back and bring...