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...George and Queen Mary put etiquette in their royal pockets and went to the house of Viscountess Astor, where they were in effect presented to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Long, informal and marked by cordiality on both sides was the ensuing chat between the King of Men and the Monarch of Motors, a chat which may just possibly have been momentous and lucky for Ireland...
...ideas of Burton Holmes, travel-lecturer interviewed in this issue, on the general topics of prohibition, education and the democratic form of government. According to this widely-travelled observer, the United States is not likely to achieve temperance, education is impossible without affectation, and rule by an absolute monarch--friendly of course--is more to be desired than rule by a majority. This has all been said before. To criticise the existing order has never been difficult...
...thing a few weeks later when Elder Statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, who might have been expected to make the legal aspects of the match, was followed to Rome by dashing General Ivan Wolkoff, close intimate of Tsar Boris, a cavalier well able to achieve the amorous aspect of a monarch's suit...
...party traveled by rail from Jasper to Robson Station, and then on horseback to Berg Lake Camp, seventeen miles distant, in the upper part of the "Valley of a Thousand Falls." This camp is situated on the shores of the lake at the foot of Mount Robson, the monarch of the Canadian Rockies. Here again the weather proved quite unsatisfactory, but on Thursday it was possible to spend the day outside the shelter of the camp. One group under the leadership of Dr. Parejas crossed Robson Glacier and climbed the Lynx. Traversing its summit and the neighboring ridge, they reached...
...Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an actress, Mistress Knipp, with wines and spinet-playing; had Mistress Pepys return inopportunely but not until Mistress Knipp had time to disguise herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them in the translation of Max Meyerfeld. They waxed enthusiastic over the simple, deftly turned music of Composer Coates, likened its gaiety, its crinkling charm to Mozart...