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...silver. He got himself elected lieutenant governor, divorced his wife, Augusta, to marry a mining camp belle named Baby Doe. President Arthur attended the wedding, in Washington, just after Haw Tabor had wangled himself a seat in the U. S. Senate. Tabor spent $1,000 on a silk and lace nightshirt with gold buttons; he was swindled out of a fortune trying to buy as a present for his wife the jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor...
...Alfred David Lenz created a sensation among metallurgists. He showed roses, bits of cabbage leaves, delicate orchids, the spiny heads of Queen Anne's lace, in which every tiny vein was preserved in solid bronze, cast from the objects themselves. Later he exhibited a series of statuets, most of them not over 8 in. high including their bases, which were cast not in one but in four or five metals at the same time...
...flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia. It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace curtains, where it could be seen from the street. Most of the 87 groups were modeled by Sculptor Rogers with this in mind, that they might be equally effective from all sides. Subjects were catholic, but each told a story, generally a sentimental one, never satiric: "Fetching the Doctor...
...great grimy sheds of the Halles Centrales, the central markets of Paris. Tourists returning from the theatres pass long lines of high-wheeled wagons, piled high with cabbages. Few ever notice the long rows of stalls outside the market where weary camelots sell rubber dolls, postcards, hair oil, lace doilies, patent corkscrews...
...tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name of Al Shean, became famed with the late Ed ("Oh, Mister") Gallagher. Al Schoenberg's sister Minna was a Manhattan fur and lace worker. She married an Alsatian immigrant named Samuel Marx who frequently sat up all night playing pinochle in his tailor-shop. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Marx had five sons: Leonard (Chico), Arthur (Harpo), Milton (Gummo). Julius (Groucho) and, ten years later, Herbert (Zeppo...