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...crown. Then over the Patriarch's shoulders they draped three layers of bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object he took from the salver; it was not sacred. He simply picked up the large yellow, celluloid comb (lacking three...
...possible ma chineries, a being responsible to the best care." Owen's partners watched his experiments patiently, but bathtubs, school rooms, shorter hours, little mill children clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented their junior partner with a silver salver in recognition of an undeniable increase in dividends "and suggested that he give up his many charities." Even his "dearest Caroline," a devout Calvinist, began to wish ardently that her Robert would walk closer to "the straight and narrow way of God." Prairie Paradise. When, after discouraging years in England...
Then Belgrade. At the railway station were the members of the Regency, the Mayor of Belgrade with the traditional salver of bread & salt, Deputies, generals, priests, rabbis, ladies-in-waiting. There, too, was a guard of honor, stiffly at attention, with the national colors draped in black. Little King Peter knew what he must do. Loudly his childish treble piped out: "May God help, heroes!" Back came the bass roar of the Guards: ''God keep...
Lacking King Carol, the other two Kings made a splendid show. At the Sofia station were Tsar Boris and his Italian Queen, Ioanna. and the flustered Mayor of Sofia holding a solid gold salver with the traditional offering of bread & salt. Everyone kissed everyone else. For two days there were parades and banquets, tea parties and reviews, and between times weighty conferences between the two Kings, their Foreign Ministers, interspersed with busy telephone calls to King Carol in Bucharest. No official resumes were given out, but every Balkan correspondent knew what the Kings were talking about...
...King of Kings' junket was at Istanbul where the great Dolma Bagtche Palace of bygone Turkish Sultans was thrown open for a great ball to honor His Majesty. Reclining on a divan the King of Kings ate Turkish delight off a onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed in a fashion to make the King of Kings blink. Stoutly, Persian...