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Pleased was France the next day when Mr. Kellogg knelt unostentatiously at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...Butte ugliness. It cost $7,000,000. It held: 130 rooms, 21 bathrooms, a furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly in the wind, his face hidden by fluffy, square beard and flourishing moustache...
Antoine Cierplikowski is the most famed of all Parisian coiffeurs. His estate at Gravigny is spacious with lawns and leafy bowers. On it he has erected his own tomb, surmounted by the colossal marble figure of a man bending over the smaller figure of a woman and gazing at her shaved neck...
...ashes of the most famed U. S. Communist were solemnly interred, last week, in the Red Square, at Moscow, not far from the immense, squat tomb of Nikolai Lenin...
...Europe for the first international banking concern. Probably they came from their magnificent palaces to see Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century was out, in a burst of shocking eugenics and sound economics...