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...Gann, no talker in Society, heard those about him discuss the Junoesque lady in a silver lace dress seated so grandly at the right hand of the diminutive Ambassador Davila at one end of the table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph...
Laden with gifts of hats and lace, the Hoovers reboarded the Cleveland accompanied by Dr. Ayora. The two men talked in private for three'hours. There was a state dinner on the Cleveland, a ball on shore. At daybreak the Cleveland^ carried the Hoovers out to the Maryland which steamed forthwith for Callao...
...thing in Jarnegan is the performance, provided by Wynne Gibson, of a dipsomaniac star arriving at the peak of her intoxication; hearing noises in the night, she surmises that the owls are after her; with puzzled insolence she abuses an extra girl and wraps herself wildly in a black lace shawl...
...indispensable to his political position-Christian of Kurland, mercenary soldier, master of the art of war, gentleman of fabulous wealth and sophisticated Versailles breeding. Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus. His soldiers adored him, all Europe feared him. Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack." Aside from legitimacy there was only one thing that he wanted, and that the hand of Leopold's fiancee, fair Eleanora. In return he promised...
...Kellogg had several items to declare. Most noteworthy were Irish winter underwear, Irish lace, Irish steamer rugs, a few Paris gowns, lingerie, perfume. Mr. Kellogg had less to declare but there was, of course, that gold pen which he received at Havre...