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...Qatar (rhymes with butter) was no more than a sunburned thumb-120 miles long and 50 wide-sticking out into the Persian Gulf. Periodically, howling shamal winds blistered the low, monotonous plateau. Doha, seat of government, was a mud village, and the only sign of industry was a few palm groves by the sea and a few fishing boats. The only foreigners were American missionaries...
Nelson Dyar, American, was "not at all distinguished in appearance. He did not look like an actor or a statesman or an artist, nor yet like a workman, a businessman or an athlete." Moreover, when the Marquesa de Valverde peered into his palm, she could see "no sign of anything ... an empty hand...
...floor" of the New York Stock Exchange. "The first moment we danced together . . . I knew that at last I was honestly, deeply in love." They were married, and fortified by the Wright millions, Cobina threw a succession of parties that made her the busiest hostess on the Sands Point-Palm Beach-Café Society circuit. At the same time, she dazzled Manhattan concert audiences with a recital mixture of popular soprano numbers and lavish costumes...
...that point some of the victims spoke up. Syria resented the report's stating the fact that beggars abound in Syria; Egypt did not want it said that Egyptian naturalization papers are sometimes obtained by palm-greasing. Saudi Arabia proposed that the report be "impounded and pulped." Belgium and France added their cavils. Russia denounced one passage in the report as "subversive activity...
...Grand Manner. He lived magnificently. When Widower Williams married twice-divorced Mona Bush, a handsome Kentucky belle 24 years his junior, their honeymoon was spent on Williams' Warrior, then the world's largest yacht. He bought villas at Capri, Palm Beach, Long Island, Judge Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion and a Paris town house. Perennially, couturiers hailed Mona Williams as the best-dressed woman in the world...