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...other, marked the first time he had ever fought to split Greeks. And for the first time he failed. Once more ''the shivering of the dying and the malediction of man'' fell upon Venizelos. The 71-year-old man, who fled last week to a swank Italian hotel in Rhodes with a private beach, groaned, "I am tired by the hardships and disappointments of the last few days...
Aristocrats among the 123,304 U. S. Roman Catholic nuns are those who belong to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Called "Mothers" and "Madames," they run many a swank day and boarding school, teach French and other polite subjects to good little Protestants as well as Catholic girls. Their order was founded in 1800 by Madeleine Sophie Barat, who was canonized by her Church in 1925. To qualify as a Madame, a girl of respectable parentage and unblemished reputation must take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, study and teach for five or six years, then undergo...
...spectacle to which he referred was an 11-ft., 7-ton statue of Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
Entries for what he whimsically called "a new Blue Riband of the World's Soup Tureen" were called for in London last week by elegant Managing Director George Reeves-Smith of swank Claridges, the Berkeley and the Savoy. His hostels, Mr. Reeves-Smith announced, will award a Silver Jubilee Commemoration Cup and Medals for the three best recipes for vegetable soups, submitted by cooks the world over...
Eager as he was to be in Paris, Arnold Bernstein was not half so anxious as the Conference was to have him there. Meeting behind closed doors in their swank offices, the grave-faced members had good cause for anxiety. In three short years this handsome, affable German Jew had grown from a minor competitor to a major menace. As the principal owner of Arnold Bernstein Line, biggest of the transatlantic independents, he had more than held his own against an international shipping combine by the simple method of selling transportation cheaper than anyone else. Hugely successful...