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Septuagenarian Henry Holiday Timken, Canton's No. 1 citizen, lives in baronial splendor in his Canton home, is sometimes called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Around his estate is a high iron fence guarded by watchmen who question all who attempt to enter. Deaf, Mr. Timken expresses himself in curious ways. On his office floor is a fine thick carpet. It is said that when something displeases him, he stalks the floor scattering live cigaret butts. No one is allowed to pick them up, for later Mr. Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence...
...crowded knickknack splendor of Buckingham Palace one day last week Queen Mary's costly phalanx" of long case clocks marked a fateful teatime. James Ramsay MacDonald's last hour as Prime Minister was striking...
...total that the worshipful minds of art students could not embrace. Nearly every picture was priceless, not for sale, beyond reach of the millions of a Mellon, Frick, Morgan or Widener. At the opening notables made conventional little speeches of Franco-Italian handholding. Their banalities could not obscure the splendor and magnitude of the event. Last week a tourist in Paris could see in a day in the Petit Palais what in any other year would have taken a summer's zigzagging over the face of Europe...
With whiskers and side-burns flying merrily in the breeze that tear-jerking, soul-saving mellerdramer of the roaring forties, "The Drunkard" mounts the D. U. stage in handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly hilarious bit of eighteenth century Americana. Backed by a variety of well designed stage settings the drama runs its solid simple course. The handsome Yale collegian (Robert Reed) meets the fair maiden and before the first act is out they have settled down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage...
...arrival the French Delegation made for the Savoy Hotel, as French diplomats in London always do, deeming its food the best in the city. That night Premier Flandin and M. Laval were obliged, however, to eat amid the stuffy splendor of Londonderry House because the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry have what amounts to a permanent social option on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and any celebrity guests of His Majesty's Government...