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...stairs. He saw her silhouette above the banister, heard the thread of her frail singing and her cry, as she caught her heel in the carpet, slipped and fell down, down the great stairway-the thud as her head struck the oak floor. In the years that followed, he iso lated himself from men and affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John Adams was elected President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became...
...evening of his arrival Prince Umberto was guest of honor at Government House. President de Alvear and ISO distinguished officials were present. After food, wine and speeches had been mixed, the Prince viewed from a balcony a torchlight procession staged by the gleeful denizens of Buenos-Aires...
Poincaré's character recalls that of Roosevelt. Bristling, energetic, thorough, he has a mania for documentation and official papers, which he reads for diversion. He writes in his own hand from ISO to 200 letters a day. He goes into the French election in the unique position of urging himself on the country as the best Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister of the Interior. His is not a single-track mind, but he is a one-man government...
...days of the gold rush to California, when ships laden with optimists were dashing madly from the East coast to the West, around Cape Horn, in ISO days. Eastern papers blazoning forth "California advertisements"-sales of trunks, guidebooks, tools, cough-drops, coffee grinders, collapsible boats, patent medicines, rubber garments- every conceivable article a gold digger might conceivably require-even one enterprising concern announcing: "Ho for California! Last, not least! Persons going to the gold regions are seriously advised to take, among other necessaries, a good lot of monuments and tombstones. A great saving can be effected by having their inscriptions...
...following day, Sunday, the pair visited the Emperor and Empress at Namazu, went to Iso to announce their wedding to the great Emperor Jimmu (said to have ascended the throne in the year 660 B. C.) and to Yamada to do the same to the Emperor Momoyama...