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...gather around the sacred majesty of the king to reaffirm our harmonious will in preparing Italy for the radiant future which the great queen expected from the people and invoked from...
...royal death, the Gazette likewise trumpeted the Siamese equivalent for "Long Live The King!" Oval faced, almond eyed, inscrutable, Prince Pracha Tipok, ascended the throne of his unfortunate brother with the thankful gravity of one whose star, long dimmed, at length shines brightly. His Queen, by nature plump and radiant as a full-waxed moon, assumed likewise a fitting decorum. Both joined in extending what comfort they might to handsome Chao Chom Suvadena, Queen for a few anguished weeks, "demoted" by death...
Author Hutchinson's own view of himself is brightened by the radiant fact that his books do sell, en masse. In this latest, he consumes 448 pages with a halting account of how, after the War, Simon Paris by an unspectacular miracle found "Christ the Common Denominator," and became an active (soapbox preaching) part of the Great Purpose. Nothing is made very clear, except that Simon's two brothers ("Old Niggs" and "Old Charles") were unhappy and he was kind to them. The wife of one was ravishing but gambled and fell ill with smallpox. The wife...
...screen. Imagine my surprise. I am sincerely sorry to have disarranged the charming interior and make every apology and abandon everything I coveted to take along. My companion cannot understand what he terms "sentimental nonsense." I will indemnify him. But allow me, madam, to take your pictures. Your radiant beauty, which seems to me also to speak of great goodness of heart, will excuse this petty larceny. Some day I will write and tell you my life duty. Perhaps it will be you, madam, who will prove to be my redeemer...
...afternoon's automobile ride around the Cincinnati hills, Mr. Davey or anyone else who knows trees could pick out 100 buckeyes. In the spring, they are the first of the trees to put forth their leaves and lovely flowers, and it is a great sight here to see these radiant green trees standing in the forest that is otherwise dull and colorless...