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...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...
...teeth into." Tom finally gets a backer for his play, none other than the superbly proper, anti-theatrical Vice Chancellor, whose frolicking son marries the leading lady of the "Wells", Miss Trelawny. This is one of Dramatist Pinero's early plays, yet it does not have the mutton-chop sleeves of his later pity-poor-Paula scenes...
...Black Archduke passed through the Gate of Honor, two lines of guards with leopard skins thrown over their shoulders saluted. They saluted again when the three other Habsburg Archdukes entered: Archduke ("Papa") Friedrich (father of Albrecht); Archduke Josef, his mutton chop whiskers sprouting above a crimson field-marshal's uniform; and his son, Archduke Franz, clad in a golden tunic, lost in the high sable collar of his purple cape...
...investment, for he proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the one time President, loved to come to their store. She would be dressed in a slim-waisted jacket, with leg-of-mutton sleeves, an amiable gentlewoman whom Michael adored. One day she gave him a carnation. He wanted to pin it to his father's lapel, but Jacob told him to take it home, press it. When the boy left the store, he discovered that he had lost the flower. How meet...
...Valenciennes, France, topers sipped blear-eyed one midnight last week. Suddenly they stared aghast as a lion bounded in at the door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...