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...Senator from Constantine, Algeria, began mixing art and philanthropy years ago when she imported wool from India, set her husband's impoverished constituents to weaving rugs. Few years after the War she grew interested in the plight of France's tapestry weavers. Flourishing when kings and noblemen wanted something ornamental to keep out the draughts which seeped through castle walls, their craft was dying in an age of steam heat and small apartments. What tapestry weaving needed, decided Mme Cuttoli, was a stiff shot in the arm of modern design as conceived by France's greatest living...
Aged Uncle Elie and his aging nephew Leon lived together in a rented Paris house in a style all their own. Both were Breton noblemen, but Elie looked like a tramp, his rags held together with string, and Leon looked like a hired man. Uncle Elie and Leon had lived together for 40 years, ever since they had given up the attempt to get ahead in the world. As a young man Leon had excelled at writing Latin verse, had a facile talent for music and painting, had once invented an apparatus for enlarging photographs, but the only thing...
...resort when George of Wales made it his summer court. Eighteenth Century physicians commonly prescribed large quantities of mineral water for all ailments; at Brighton invalids dosed themselves accordingly and discovered the pleasures of bathing almost by accident. By the time Prince George arrived, bathing had become popular, although noblemen were still usually so dirty that no sensitive person could stay long in a crowd of them. At Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting at chimney-pots. He fell violently...
...Fascists. Like Britain's Ramsay MacDonald, he is famed for his old wars on tyranny, for his soft and gentlemanly heart and. to the mind of Labor, for his betrayal of democracy. He was backed last week solidly by the Army, Navy, Civil Guards, retired Army officers, noblemen and women of Spain...
Spanish nerves were still taut. After a late afternoon outburst of firing in Madrid, 12,000 retired army officers and an association of noblemen headed by the Viscount of Cubas stepped forward to offer their services to the Government. Snapped a potent Deputy: "This uncertainty, if it continues, will end in military dictatorship. The Government should take the most drastic steps...