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Beside the Battle of 1941, that of Actium (31 B.C.) in which Antony tried to stave off the one-man dictatorship of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), seems a pathetic farce. Shakespeare tells how Cleopatra finally withdrew her 60 galleys from the action and fled in her sumptuous royal barge, whereupon She once being loof'd, the noble ruin of her magic, Antony, claps on liis sea-wing, and (like a doting mallard) leaving the fight in heighth, flies after...
...Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, 15 sumptuous gowns specially designed by ranking French couturiers, and worn by debutantes and young matrons, were auctioned for the benefit of the French. Top price...
...late a run of foul California weather has dashed Ouida Rathbone's efforts. It began with her Charity Ball last December. The project was sumptuous. Pièce de résistance was to have been an Alpine scene re-created with real snow in the subtropical palm gardens of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Afternoon of the party the rains came. What with this disappointment and that, by 7 in the evening Mrs. Rathbone was in a state of nervous collapse and could not take part in the festivities. But her guests had a high old time inside...
...estate operator who several times circled the globe before he became finance director of the Democratic National Committee, thence broke into diplomacy. To meet him King Ibn Saud went down from Mecca for a day and Prince Feisal, second of His Majesty's 20-odd sons, offered a sumptuous banquet...
Last week, as both men celebrated their birthdays, Field Marshal Göring, heir-designate of the Führer, was publicly congratulated by Army, Government and Nazi Party officials. The Führer honored him with a personal call at Karin Hall, the sumptuous manor house which the Field Marshal built on Berlin's outskirts...