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...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
After this darkness will come the dawn. World trade will revive, under an Air Dictatorship, but national government will remain a thing of the past. Basic English (invented in 1922 by C. K. Ogden) will be the lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air-dollar"-valued at one cubic metre weighing ten kilograms and traveling 200 kilometres at 100 km.p.h. By 1965 Wells reaches the bottom of his stocking, triumphantly extracts the Modern World-State as a going concern...
Would other Embassies follow the British and go Dry? It seemed unlikely, though guests recalled that Jose de Horta Machado da Franca, Visconde d'Alte, the Portuguese Minister, was no server of "intoxicating beverages" at his entertainments, and that Chilean Ambassador Carlos Davila, after giving a dry dinner to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, recently had queried his Government on the wisdom of cutting off its embassy's liquor supply, not to accord with U. S. Prohibition, but with a new temperance movement in Chile...
...American language is established in spite of the "janitors of our speech." Even after three hundred years of geographical separation a Bostonian understands an Englishman's conversation more readily than a Southerner's. We still manage to read English books with tolerable facility. There will be no slang lingua franca as long as the leavening influence of conservative instruction remains. In the words of Professor Palmer: "Look well to your speech...
Owing to the critical illness of his wife, M. Anatole Le Braz, who has been delivering the Hyde lecture series on "Brittany" under the auspices of the Circle Franca is, left Boston on the mid-night train yesterday, and will, sail today by the S.S. Lucania for his home in Rennes, Brittany. The rest of the Hyde series has been permanently cancelled...