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Seated beside the General on a sofa, Guest Kuh surveyed four rubber plants in pots, four cuspidors, a large German clock, sumptuous Persian rugs, rich curtains, and a table on which tea was sumptuously laid in a silver service, complete with biscuits, fruit, cakes and a bucket of cracked ice surrounding French champagne...
...sumptuous Washington offices. Fruit Industries, Ltd., potent California grape-growers cooperative which has borrowed more than $2,500,000 from the Federal Farm Board, pondered the Ukiah decision last week and took warning. Fruit Industries, said Managing Director Donald D. Conn, will no longer sell or "service" Vine-Glo grape concentrate. Instead the company's other concentrates?Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven, Guasti?will be sold unserviced "for soft drinks as usual. "If anyone still wants to let Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven or Guasti sit 60 days and ferment like Vine-Glo into wine, Fruit Industries will not and does...
...make one. Today, visitors to Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth are always shown the large square desk, with drawers, built-in ink-stands and space for a beerstein, which turns out to have a piano inside it. And in Bechstein's house in Berlin (not far from the sumptuous Bechstein salon in new. smart West End) rests the white marble bust of Richard Wagner which the composer sent in gratitude...
...sumptuous palace of a courtesan (Madame de Pompadour) the 13th President of France was inaugurated on Saturday the 13th last week, swore no oath, placed his finger tips upon no Bible...
...cavalcade of the Garde Républicaine pranced and clattered up to the Little Luxembourg Palace, in which are the sumptuous apartments of the President of the Senate. Here Mme and M. Paul Doumer have lived for the past four years. Last week, only four days before President-Elect Doumer's inaugural, he resigned as President of the Senate (which elected as its new President Senator Albert Lebrun). As the horses stamped and swished their tails in the courtyard last week, Premier Pierre Laval arrived. He and President-Elect Doumer then motored slowly (so that the Garde Républicaine could keep...