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...lost his right eye in combat and was called "II Duce'' before Mussolini. D'Annunzio coldly refused to see Balbo. Afterward his friends asked: ''Why do you snub him? After all he is 'The Eagle.'" Snorted D'Annunzio: "Eagle? . . . Peacock...
...loyal Chargé d'Affaires Azodi all praise for emphasizing that four years after the coup d'état Persia's Majlis (Parliament) formally deposed Ahmed Shah, formally elevated Reza Shah to the Peacock Throne...
Outside Rumania King Carol II cuts so sorry a figure that his potency inside Rumania is scarcely realized. Reigning peacock fashion as a Balkan Louis XIV, his favorite aphorism is: "I believe in Destiny...
Charles Palache, professor of Mineralogy, has now been working for several years in anticipation of this revision in his particular field, crystallography, and he will present a paper to the gathering on this subject. In his work, he has had the cooperation of Laurence laFerge '99 and M. A. Peacock, the former of whom is co author with Palache in "Crystallographic Notes," and the latter the author of "Crystallography of Emplectite...
There was Wilde, in the days after the peacock blue, the velveteens, and the shirt-cuffs turned over his jacket sleeves had been renounced. There was the gathering in the old stable beside Kelmscott House, where Wilde held forth. "I have never answered letters," he said, "I have known men come to London full of bright prospects, and seen them complete wrecks in a few months through a habit of answering letters." And again, "Mr. Bernard Shaw has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." And of course William Morris was there, and sometimes Shaw, and Russian anarchists...