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...Sucettes." Meanwhile the Deputies continued their incredibly fatuous byplay. M. le Docteur Adolphe Pinard, Professeur a la Faculté de Médecine, Membre de l'Academie de Médecine, Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, Dean of the Chamber, arose and literally diverted his peers with a baby's "comforter." Said he in a fine burst of oratory: "For two years-two years!- have striven for the opportunity which is now mine. During that time and for years previously many of the infants of France have teethed upon a vile form of rubber nipple attached...
...ball to be given in many years. Dancing was strictly a la Victorienne, King George and Queen Mary having displayed their antipathy for modern dancing by banning the fox trot and other neo-terpsichorean frills. The four Sovereigns opened the ball by leading in the formal quadrille d'honneur which has opened royal balls since the days of George III. The remainder of the evening was then filled with waltzes, polkas and the like. According to official report there was no political significance attached to the visit. Both King Ferdinand and Queen Marie especially the latter, are popular figures...
...this he received in the '90's, the decorations of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and Cavaliere della Corona d'ltalia. Following his War-work as Chairman of the "American Poets' Ambulance in Italy" and President of the New York Committee of the Italian War Relief Fund of America, he received the following honors: Commendatore della Corona d'ltalia, Officier de I'Ordre de Leopold II (Belgian), Commander of the Order of St. Sava (Serbian), culminating in the high Italian award of Gran Cordone dell' Ordine SS. Maurisio e Lazaro, given in 1921, when President Harding accepted his resignation...
...Paris. Nor are the visits solely sordid adventures to separate America from a horde of War-won dollars. Though this latter aspect has, of course, certain elements of probability, word comes from Paris: "The Americans shall not think we simply come for money. C'est pour l'honneur de la France...
Belle France. War left him sightless but unbowed. His fellow artists rallied to his support. The last picture he painted was in this year's Salon de la SociÉtÉ Nationale. Recently he was promoted from Officer to Commandeur of the Legion d'Honneur. Great painters struggled to carry him on their shoulders through the Grand Palais. G. C. Bonnat, Director of the École des Beaux Arts, made him Professor of Esthetics for life. Lemordant struggles...