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...slabs of ivory, preferably from tusks of a live elephant. The ivory was smoothed with pumice stone, soaked in water until pliable. When pressed stiff and flat each slab was cut for size. Omitting the gum, glycerine or honey the ancients used to make paint stick to chicken skin, mutton bone, vellum or copper, 20th Century miniaturists daubed on pure water colors. Then they had something they could sell, if a portrait, for from $200 to $800, if a still life, for $25 up. Last week droves of old ladies pressed their noses close to the Grand Central Art Galleries...
...deserted cottages. But from the flagstaff of Duart Castle the Maclean banner whipped boldly, and down in the great hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain of the clan at the castle that he had restored after 200 years of ruin and neglect...
...flaming mop above his scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull hours of the grind by sailing around the track with a parasol, a bustle or false whiskers...
...health. Three years later he went home, to Oxford, but his lungs sent him back again. Later he used to say that he left England not so much for love of adventure or on account of his health, as "because he could no longer stand the eternal cold mutton." Diamonds had just been discovered at Kimberley (1870). Rhodes got in on the ground floor, was soon making ?100 a week. At 27 he founded de Beers Mining Co., soon had control of practically all South Africa's diamond fields-90% of the world's diamonds. He entered...
...banks of the Hudson, faithfully watching a team victoriously beat back the attacks of the Army. Since that muddy October afternoon, when Percy Haughton carried his first football for Harvard, grey and golden jerseys have pounded on Crimson seventeen times. Baronchos have given way to limousines, leg-o'mutton sleeves are replaced by seal-skin capes, the rivalry continues...