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...Union City, N. J., a sleek stranger, having eaten and paid for a large meal in the restaurant of one John Thanos, asked courteously if he might use the telephone. Mr. Thanos heard him give a woman's name. It was evidently a long distance call, but Mr. Thanos, not wishing to appear discourteous, did not listen to the conversation. The stranger talked for 41 minutes. Courteous Thanos polished the glasses out of earshot...
Edward of Wales patted the sleek chestnut flanks of his favorite hunter, a fleet and mettlesome mount named "Oh, Dear." Vaulting into his saddle he nodded to the Duke of Rutland and set off after the latter's famed Belvoir hounds. A lengthy chase ensued, in which "Oh, Dear" and Edward swooped over many a hazard, galloped at full tilt across the downs of Melton Mowbray, distanced His Grace of Rutland completely...
...serious debtor and a smiling creditor-Count Giusseppi Volpi, Finance Minister of Italy and the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were...
...windows of the ancient guild houses which still surround La Grande Place. Throngs of children and massed delegations representing Belgian societies filled the square, from the old Maison du Roi on one side, nearly to the Gothic arcade of the Hotel de Ville on the other. Suddenly a sleek cavalcade of motors drew up before the Hotel de Ville. The crowds burst into "La Brabançonne."† Down from his motor stepped 24-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and was wildly cheered upon the official termination of his recent tour of Africa...
...been sleek, blond Jack Honoré, the tall and loquacious Swedish barber just down Nassau Street, the check would have been cashed. Great Princeton character though Joe is, Barber Jack is a greater. By some occult means, he possesses himself of names, schools, home towns, parental fames-some say, of the tax returns, creeds and girlfriends' names-of every member of every entering class. Barber Jack would have known instantly that the freshman spoke the truth, that he was indeed John Davison Rockefeller III. He would have known that Freshman Rockefeller had entered Princeton University after preparing at Loomis...