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...cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration. The critics were shocked, and the decent public, eager doubtless to see the sumptuous settings, crawled, in surreptitious droves, to see Chee-Chee...
...down the coast of Africa to Mombasa. For the sake of comfort on this sweltering voyage the British India Steam Navigation Co.'s S. S. Mali has been improved by ripping out the partitions dividing her six largest cabins and constructing instead two spacious, airy bedrooms and a sumptuous sitting room for Their Royal Highnesses...
VOLPONE-Renaissance rascality in sumptuous settings (TIME, April...
...CLAUDIA PARTICELLA, THE CARDINAL'S MISTRESS: GRAND ROMANCE OF THE DAYS OP CARDINAL EMANUEL MADRUZZO-Benito Mussolini-A. & C. Boni ($2.00). *Today just such chairs are to be found in the sumptuous residence of Dictator Mussolini, no longer Socialist but Fascist...
Crown of Clay. General Alvaro Obregon was twice invincible, in valor and in modesty. History does not record that he ever lost a major battle. So invincible was his modesty that during his term as President (1920-24) he would not occupy the Mexican "White House," a sumptuous palace, but resided nearby in his own small house. Such a man did well to refuse in his last will burial in the Mexican National Cemetery...