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...Vagabond has gotten about a goodly bit. In his day he has seen the capitals of the world gaudy with the pomp and panoply of kings. He has held London in the same comfortable respect as he regards his grandfather. He has looked upon Paris as a young girl with rouged cheeks and a broken heel. But Vienna was like a young debutante at her first dance. A little above herself in her fine clothes, a little sentimental when the orchestra strikes up a popular song of years past, but gorgeously enjoying herself. The Vagabond harks back to the days...
...Pomp & circumstance attended the stately funeral at Belgrade last week of a woman much honored and beloved, Mme Tankositch, "Mother...
Incognito, and with scarcely more pomp than surrounds the movements of J. P. Morgan for whom a private gangplank, etc. is always provided, Siam's somewhat frail King will spend some three months in the U. S. taking what would be called in Europe "the cure...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
...King be Orthodox, and went through a Catholic marriage ceremony at Assisi, Italy. It poured that day. In thunder, lightning and rain they left Italy for Sofia. Storms lashed their ship all the way. At Sofia they went through another marriage ceremony according to Orthodox rite-with great pomp and publicity (TIME, Nov. 10 et ante...