Word: marquisate
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Two gentlemen of Manhattan who professed themselves friends of Marquis Macdonald agreed with his secretary that they do not know what he does, why he maintains an office at 149 Broadway where rents are high. Pressed, they termed him a "promoter," would not say of what.
But in Vatican City everyone above the rank of friar seems to know. Last Christmastide Pope Pius XI created Manhattan's Macdonald a Marquis. Came news last week of elaborate celebrations of his elevation to the Papal peerage.
First, Marquis Macdonald tendered a banquet to highest Papal dignitaries, at which New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes ate and drank.
Next a series of reciprocal feasts was tendered to Marquis Macdonald by Cardinal Gasparri (then Papal Secretary of State), Cardinal Sincero, Cardinal Cerretti and other Princes of the Church.
Everything's Jake, a new comedy by genial Don (The Old Soak) Marquis, is, like most of his writings, pervaded with the persuasive odors of the barroom. It concerns the adventures of Jake Smith, wealthy Long Island 'legger, with his wife, daughter and three bleary cronies on an...