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They stood in the hallway of the bishop of their diocese-young Jack and Bernardone and the bishop. At their feet was a parcel of rich woven-stuffs, linen and cloth of gold, a silver altar cloth, a sword-belt. The bishop, brown and quiet, was explaining something, half-humorously, to Pietro Bernardone; the merchant seemed too angry to hear him. Had he ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws...
...news. At the hospital door bushels of flowers arrived. Two extra operators were detailed to the telephone switchboard to answer calls concerning Mr. Valentino. (When a rumor that he was dead circulated, the calls came at the rate of 2,000 an hour.) A maid delivered an Irish linen bed spread and pillow case marked "Rudy" with a card from Jean Acker. (She was his first wife.) From Paris came a message, "Pray God night and day for your recovery." It was signed Winifred Hudnut. (She was his second wife.) "This is Pola Negri in California," said a brittle voice...
...would bring his vestments with him. His equipage will include a wardrobe which would be the envy of a Zulu wife-hunter for brilliance, of an Eskimo seal-hunter for warmth, of a U. S. antique-hunter for traditions. The most venerable are the: Alb, which is a white linen robe, once form-fitting (contracted from the flowing garment of Biblical times in order to give greater facility in handling dripping baptised persons), but recently, in the hours of the church, enlarged again. It reaches the ankles. Although a poor cleric (such as the brother of the Bishop of London...
...flow the wondrous volume of his stored inanity on any victim. . . . Louisa May Alcott was famous. Her bones ached; her voice had become hoarse and coarse. . . . She must nurse her mother and pay Pa's debts. . . . Alcott went beaming and rosy in the very best broadcloth and linen to lecture on Duty, Idealism and Emerson. . . . Duty's child was hard at work, writing 'moral pap for the young' in her own phrase, and paralysing a thumb by making three copies of a serial at once. . . . Notices mentioned that Louisa May Alcott was a type...
...Mencken When recovered from these flery charges of hypocrisy, the investigator plunges into a drab slough of respectability in which six-cylindered sedans protect bourgeosie from the necessity of thought. In this literary domain, preempted by Sinclair Lewis, murky morals and stupid minds promenade in clean linen...