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...display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern swinging within; 5) the Queen Victoria paper weight, displaying that sovereign carved dumpily in jade, wearing a diamond crown...
...Ways at Westminster", Professor Munro. New Lecture Hall, Government 1. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides...
Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Chairman of the Council of the School of Architecture, will conclude the triangular symposium by a discussion of "Religion and the Fine Arts". His talk will be accompanied by lantern slides...
...General Jesus Lopez des-patched two soldiers in civilian dress to parley with the bandits and assure them that so large a ransom could not be raised for another 24 hours. The soldiers rode out, one carrying over his arm a brakeman's lantern. Though they proceeded to the spot designated for payment of the ransom they saw no bandits...
Among German arch-Monarchists the events of last week inspired a slogan: "Ballots for Bullets!" None but such ramrod-backed lantern-jawed die-hards believed that the 45,000,000 Germans who abstained from voting last week will ever ballot Wilhelm back upon the throne from which he was brought down by bullets...