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...This week- the 14th of July—France will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Fall of the Bastille. This year the French Government is expected to outdo past performances in parading the power & splendor of French armed might on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Attending the celebrations will be Sultan Sidi Mohammed of French-protected Morocco, and Emperor Bao Dai of Annam, in Indo-China. Native troops from the French Empire will march alongside crack French regiments. Also in line will be a detachment from British Guards Regiments which have gone to France more than once...
...pigeon got in is unknown, but rumors were circulating that someone was planning to outdo the goldfish and white mice gulpers...
With nice Victorian scruples, Biographer Scudder likewise calls it a happy marriage. Modern readers will likely be more interested in his unstressed evidence of Jane Carlyle's frustrations: her nervous headaches and insomnia, her refusal to write (although her good friend Dickens said she could outdo George Eliot), her declaration that "One writer is quite enough in a house." Nor can the reader so lightly dismiss as a weak-moment confession her confidential opinion that marriage is "extremely disagreeable...
...show as he has seen in his 28 years in Congress. The hearing room was jammed with Townsendites and other pension peddlers, for on the committee's schedule was no less a witness than Physician Francis E. Townsend himself. Far more unruly, however, were Congressmen anxious to outdo one another in doing for the old folks. Massachusetts' broadbeamed Republican Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when Congress receives the committee's report. Trying to shout down a group of Democrats, Republican Treadway...
...sketching. With the whole West open, as it had not been to Audubon. and with such latter-day research as Dr. Elliott Coues's massive check list and American Museum of Natural History's 100,000 bird skins, Brasher achieved at least part of his ambition to outdo Audubon: he painted twice as many birds...