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...Author, says his introducer, "is that rare article, a newspaper executive who gets around a little and has first-hand knowledge of his town. He is a connoisseur of people, especially fantastic ones, and seeks them out as the late J. P. Morgan sought rare old snuff-boxes." He has journalistic premonitions which stand him in good stead. "He is practically a whippoorwill in his ability to forecast death, especially the death of an eminent citizen." Generally considered Manhattan's most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having...
...King Edward sent a snuff box of blue and gold enamel with his miniature on it. The Kaiser sent a bracelet set with a miniature of himself, a smaller twin of the one he had given me for christening the Meteor. The only difference was in the uniform that he had on, and that the gold was lighter and the diamonds around the miniature smaller in the one that I got for getting married. The present from the King of Italy was a mosaic table, so large and heavy that I have never been able...
...sharper relief the darkness of the richly ornamented carving on woodwork and wainscote. The men standing about the table by the fire, jesting and arguing noisily, were gentlemen of the age of the sun king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...
...council chamber. There under a portrait of the Panchen Lama sat Prince Teh Wang who for months has been trying to found a Pan-Mongolian self-rule movement. Despite their traditional suspicions of one another, Prince Teh Wang last week herded the princes into agreement. Between pinches of snuff they drew up a Confederation of Inner Mongolian States, haggled out its bylaws. Then they sent word to Nanking that they wanted to rule Inner Mongolia themselves. If Nanking tries to stop them, they threatened, they "will not hesitate to seek assistance" from Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo-will...
...Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain...