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Explanatory Ode All persons who aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis...
...cheers. At the Palace he kissed Betty goodbye, shut her firmly into the limousine, ordered the chauffeur to drive to the house of her parents, the Duke and Duchess of York (No. 145 Piccadilly). As Baby Betty waved out the back window, George V firmly marched up the stair to the royal apartments...
...President and his Lady, preceded by aides, and followed by the Cabinet et ux., march sedately out of the Blue Room, across the hall, up the broad stone steps to the upstairs sitting room. Sliding metal gates on the stair click shut behind them...
...could be fairly said that last week Frank Billings Kellogg rode the crest. Therefore, this week is an appropriate time to stroll into the large, nondescript, comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, on 19th Street Washington, D. C. If a joyous, woolly dog comes bounding down the stair, call, "Bodger! Here Bodger!" After Secretary Kellogg had signed the pact in Paris, Mrs. Kellogg bought "Bodger" in Ireland, as a present for the Secretary's brother in St. Paul-but the Kelloggs like "Bodger" so well that they still occasionally borrow him. A white butler (odd in Washington) will...
Expectant scribes could only remain certain that when Andre Tardieu does choose to speak, he will step briskly up the stair leading to the Chamber's Tribune, open his remarks with accustomed arrogance, and drive straight on to his conclusions with merciless, go-getting logic, always presenting his thesis as simply ban sens (common sense), and implying that his opponents must be visionary scatter-brains...