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...ceremony of donating the memorial volume was attended with usual pomp. In the Salon of Letters, Arts and Sciences in the Hotel de Ville a distinguished group of political, industrial, artistic luminaries stood stiffly at attention as a band blared "God Save the King" and the "Marseillaise," after which the Golden Book was presented to Sir Austen by Louis Delsol. President of the Paris Municipal Council, with these words...
While even great and good men have occasionally made sport of Virtue, in every age, it is still venerated with the utmost pomp by a Germanic branch of that famed brotherhood of nobles, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem...
...ancient maxim, Speak nothing about the Dead except good, was never more flatly disregarded than last week, in Paris, when M. Paul Valery, poet of severe Classicism, was received by the French Academy, amid pomp, and took the seat once occupied by that late famed trifler with life and words, M. Anatole France...
...Bramburn Smyth [TIME, June 6] prefers the "poise (pomp?) and dignity" of the English aristocracy to the equality and democracy of the United States, there are a number of boats making regular sailings, any of which would be pleased to accept his passage money...
...President and the Colonel are not so far apart as these circumstances would indicate. The pomp of office and the prestige of daring are alike playthings of the press and the public. There is an incessant pulse in the nation: and ebb follows flow and flow succeeds ebb with deadly certainty...