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...Naval Secretary and an intimate friend of the Kaiser. In 1900 his "von" was registered in the Almanach de Gotha. In 1911 he was appointed Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. All this time, with the Kaiser's enthusiastic approval he was turning British sea lords livid by building up from practically nothing a navy that was to be nearly Britain's equal in fighting strength...
...other years, have a distinct penchant for fat nude ladies, bulging, specific nudes in green, orange and red, lolling in intricate positions. There are nearly a hundred such creatures in the show and not a fig leaf among them. Though there may be considerable humor in one livid nude with triangular legs sprawling on a studio chair (the fat ladies who pose for Independent artists seem to have a distinct disinclination to stand up for any length of time), a hun-dred such nudes leave an impression of acute melancholia. Sprightlier are the political pictures: ruined speculators selling their clothes...
...stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof of the library, hurled down and shattered most of the balustrade, marched away chanting Belgium's national air La Brabançonne. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze had a third set of "stones" hastily moulded from plaster of Paris. With these in place the new Library of Louvain was formally dedicated on July 4, 1928. But soon afterward one Edmond Morren, father of two, citizen of Louvain, climbed upon the roof of the Library just...
...work has been done in any Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called "Bilkers! !" As other Conservatives followed the Foreign Secretary, all flaying Mr. Snowden and all greatly exaggerating his slip, he became positively livid with rage. "I retract not a word! I refuse to apologize!" he shrilled, emphasizing his exclamations with cane thumps. "I am sufficient of an Englishman not to be content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more prosperous than ourselves...
Sudden pains came, and the Queen Mother tossed restlessly. Midnight tolled. Maria Christina grew pale, livid, and drops of sweat stood on her brow. She had been stricken with angina pectoris?paroxysms of the heart. Hot applications slightly eased the paroxysms, but before a priest arrived, at 2 a. m., the Queen Mother was unconscious. Last rites were administered, though Maria Christina knew it not, and she died...