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...tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...
...yacht is the Valfreya, built for Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales. Mr. Brown, when he purchased her, sold another yacht (in which he had sailed from Manhattan never to return) to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. He ordered the Valfreya?sleek and opulently resembling J. P. Morgan's Corsair?to steam into the little harbor of Brightlingsea, off the Essex coast of England. That...
...ship Chantier. There he saw to it that the Josephine was properly stowed below decks in a dismantled condition, showed his backers and friends over the craft on an inspection tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock. Going down the bay, a sleek yacht escorted the Chantier with her owner, Vincent Astor, aboard, and other Byrd-backers, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Edsel Ford, F. Trubee Davison, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett. Tromso, Norway...
President Lincoln. Smooth and sleek-faced as a well-fed Britisher, he spoke with the accent peculiar to Piccadilly Circus. He discussed the U. S. Civil War with a comfortable affability, an easy indifference, a polished negligence. To indicate that he had aged during the performance, he hooked on a fringe of whiskers running from...
Outside the station a sleek limousine belonging to the Roumanian Embassy waited. Into it stepped Mme. Lupescu, whose toque was brown. Into it stepped Carol, "whose princely Adam's Apple bounced up and down on his long scrawny neck," according to the now frankly vexed pressmen...