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...tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals were called Red Cross Seals, bore that organization's bold Grecian red cross and signature. The seal sales, however, hindered Red Cross collec tions for its own purposes. So the 1919 seal also carried the double-barred Lor raine cross, symbol of the National Tuberculosis Association. Since 1920 the seals have made no reference to the Red Cross. That...
...home on 57th Street. . . . A door was closed on the three years during which they lived together, a door that was never opened. . . . Honors came to Roosevelt; age came also. Only Alice Lee remains young and does not fade. She is forever fair, like the figure on the Grecian...
...wise, a Grecian temple, builded on a gilded coast...
...Author, Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian), an Armenian born in a Bulgarian village, lives in London and on the Riviera. He is married (since 1928) to the beautiful Italo-U. S.-Grecian Countess Atalanta Mercati. Once a struggling writer in London, at 35 Michael Arlen's struggles are over. Smooth, cosmopolitan, he is thus described by a warm friend: "His ties and socks are a gracefully subdued symphony. His barber is the best in town. . . . His Rolls-Royce is at least six inches longer than any other Rolls-Royce. With evening dress he wears a gardenia, one white pearl...
...pages of lengthy volumes, a tale of history is here told in finely worked precious metal and gems explaining more tersely and no less clearly how the people in the dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need to be a Keats before a Grecian Urn to learn from these foster-children "of silence and slow time" the lessons which are still fresh from antiquity. The Greek civilization seems old, but the Chaldean revelations of the archaeologists are as old again. Yet, notwithstanding the lapse of time, art was even then one of the most...