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...Lionel, 14; John, 10; and Arthur Byron, somewhat older. He recalled how Byron had panicked the audience by sweeping up to Ethel and inventing the line: "Come, entice me further, pretty one, over a libation in the conservatory." Then John saluted his sister's "gaiety, charm and splendor. . . . One has only to think of her to be invested with a God-given quality of humility...
...splendor of its full-dress regalia (see cut) is produced by a combination of Wellington boots, buckskin breeches, blue blouses with silver buttons, yards of braid, bearskin-topped helmets. For the annual formal banquets in its Armory, the Troop (now Troop A, 104th Reconnaissance Regiment) has its own china and silver (made for its 100th anniversary in 1874), adorned with its helmet and sabretache...
There, in Vanderbiltian splendor, the members of the R. F. of M. M. (mostly middle-aged women) forgathered to live on a vegetable diet and listen to Mr. Schafer's inspiring talk. One of The Messenger's tenets was that one could become immortal if one had no bad thoughts. To prove his belief, or to show it off, he adopted five-month-old Baby Jean Gauntt, installed her in the mansion with a nurse, and put her on a meatless diet surrounded by nothing but "good." Immortality for Baby Jean was in the bag, said...
There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left...
Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendor that would set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-&-true cinema materials available, The Sea Hawk is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives the best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood...