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...give me the post office address of Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott of Hunter College, who as I see by the article is an authority on Poe and his handwriting. I am past 81 years of age and have recently sold a pair of Sheffield plate candelabra to the Poe Shrine at Richmond, Va. (Miss) ELVA P. BARNEY...
From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when...
...temple, cherry blossoms, a dancing geisha, a beautiful shrine, outriders heralding the Emperor's approach, all lost their beauty and romance through being viewed across a sea of dripping noses...
...Shoals plan, commended Congressman Reece for rejecting the Senate plan. Sam W. Price, opposing Representative Reece in the G. O. P. primary, loudly resented the President's "intrusion." declared: "The time hasn't come when any man, before offering himself for office, must make a pilgrimage to the distant shrine of the great political boss and humbly climb up the golden stairway to the throne and kiss his majesty's great...
...shrine of "The Little Flower of Jesus," at Lisieux, has gone many a pil grim. Soldiers who whispered her name at the Marne or Verdun have covered her shrine with their medals and swords. A few years ago the shrine was visited by Mrs. Edward C. Post, 56, rich Newport relative of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who had lived much in France since her husband died. Deaf when she arrived, Mrs. Post left cured...