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Confronted by Miss Coe's absolute refusal to give up the lease, Tony makes the best of the matter by constantly visiting Miss Coe and pouring forth the story of his "deep love" for Mrs. Rose Helen Trot. Incidentally, Miss Coe, who is, of course, a very altruistic listener, turns out to be "The Other Rose...
...premises, for minding the Elbert car, for carrying the Elbert market-basket, for going to bed promptly, for not whining or barking or "playing with other dogs." He was said to go to the bank with his weekly savings, deposit them with the teller, wait for his pass book, trot home. His balance was "$68 with no withdrawals." He was saving "against the infirmities...
Grigori Zinoviev became President of the Committee for the second time; the names of War Lord Trotzky and Karl Radek, two erstwhile powers of Communism, were dropped. This is obviously in retaliation for both Trot-ky's and Radek's criticism of the Communist Party, but it is exceedingly doubtful if the former, who is said to be popular in Russia, can be ousted from the Committee with impunity...
Then came a State banquet given in Buckingham Palace. Two thousand guests were present. It was the first ball to be given in many years. Dancing was strictly a la Victorienne, King George and Queen Mary having displayed their antipathy for modern dancing by banning the fox trot and other neo-terpsichorean frills. The four Sovereigns opened the ball by leading in the formal quadrille d'honneur which has opened royal balls since the days of George III. The remainder of the evening was then filled with waltzes, polkas and the like. According to official report there...
...Dean Stone was rubicund, smooth-shaven, cheerful-a jovial good fellow in any other atmosphere, I thought. And keen! Startling questions popped out of his mouth, several times leaving me gasping weakly like a fish and chasing my poor brains in a jog-trot down a dusty, cloudy track. He had me in front of him,. hat in hand, at attention with a confounded stenographer peering at my face with the watchfulness of a setter dog whenever my answers were slow in issuing. I wish I had a transcript of the testimony, for when I emerged I found I couldn...