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...inherits his "heavy dragoon" appearance, big-boned, healthy and hefty, with a fair complexion most rare in an Egyptian. Like many people of Arab strain, however, His Majesty is not only "quick at arithmetic" but also in the intricacies of higher mathematics. Like any Oriental potentate he keeps a taster who first samples his food lest he be poisoned, a bold little English licensed pharmacist, who is known in Egypt as Eric Titterington...
...finest of the fine arts does not deserve being trampled on. A curtailment that hits every one musically inclined, taster, concentrator, and research worker, is a pretty sour note to return to music's melodious overtures to the student body...
...from right and left. Xerxes stands behind Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture of respect and appeal." One of the court officials appears to be a Food Taster, as he holds a napkin. The monarch and his son grasp twin-budded lotus blossoms, symbols of royalty. Their shoes are like those of present-day Iranians...
...record of a sort was established by the town of St. Gaudens in the wine-growing Department of Haute-Garonne. Twelve hundred voters were faced with 111 candidates trying for one seat. Candidates included five barbers, three bakers, eleven shopkeepers, two printers, nine electricians, one professional wine-taster...
Establishing an official taster would be particularly appropriate to the Tercentenary year. From the days of Mistress Eaton, when scandals of hasty-pudding and beer rocked Harvard to her foundations, to the clanking of the guillotine in the Lowell House courtyard last spring, it has been axiomatic that this college battles as well as travels on its stomach. The mechanical men of Mr. Westcott's organization lack the human touch, and the call for an endowed chair in food tasting grows ever louder. Such a bequest would be a noble contribution for Harvard's Anniversary year...