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...Walling has done in "Murder at the Keyhole". He has created characters of a really living and vital type, the sort of people one meets in everyday life, and it is this fact more than anything else that places "Murder at the Keyhole" distinctly above most of its kin...
...Roget are next-of-kin...
Like tree and carol, from land to land Christmas custom and spirit have been carried through the centuries, whether by warriors, travellers, missionaries. Thus on this one greatest feast-day of the year the World is kin...
...masses for the repose of her soul. Dona Petronila, a Filipino, died four years later. A chaplaincy to see to the celebration of the masses was provided for. but has been vacant and the income has gone to the care of the Archbishop of Manila. One Paul Rogerio Gonzalez, kin of Dona Petronila, seeks now to recover $86,862.50, alleged income of the chaplaincy between 1911 and 1925. The Supreme Court of the U. S. will decide...
...Joshua Reynolds flattered 18th century women with his graceful, glimmering brushwork. But when he painted self-portraits, which he did at least 45 times, he exercised all the artistic honesty that Rus- kin could have wished. One of the last of his self-portraits has been acquired by the Ferargil Galleries. The stately, long-nosed Sir Joshua wears the rickety spectacles that were harbingers of his pitifully failing eyesight. For him, shining satins would not much longer shine. Shortly after completing this prophetic portrait he made a stoically doleful remark. "All things have an end," he said, "and I have...