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...youth he drudged 12 hours a day, at a salary of 4 shillings a week ($1.00). Last week he welcomed to the sumptuous mayoral board a company of diners plenipotent and distinguished. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, and the German Ambassador to Britain, Herr Doktor Sthamer, sat next each other and exchanged friendly pledges in a great loving cup. Premier Baldwin, Admiral Lord Beatty, a host of foreign Ambassadors, and many notable Britons from every walk of life, completed the gathering. As usual the banqueters were regaled with speeches of considerable political significance. Since the Foreign Secretary spoke publicly...
...years ago he quitted his sumptuous palace and well-stocked harem at Teheran, came to Paris, and, like many another, was reported "deeply shocked" at what he saw and heard there. Six months later he had succeeded in shocking in return all but the most blase inhabitants of Paris...
Some months ago, a tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...
...after the "House" ball, perchance a Magdalen ball, a "Quaggers" ball and many other balls, at which the most sumptuous refreshments are served in an atmosphere unostentatiously aristocratic, Oxford will run its eyes, yawn and fall fast asleep for the summer...
...Everything that Shakespeare ever wrote--think of it! Plays, poems, sonnets, all under one cover--and such a cover! Flexible Keratol with the deep rich gaining of sumptuous leather--the bust of Shakespeare on the front--pages edged with gold on all three sides, too! An unparalleled opportunity and bargain of a life-time...