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...longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister of France, Foreign Minister for the past six years,- "Man of Locarno," winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926), co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, author of the scheme for the United States of Europe, greatest orator and Master...
...Paris (1929) under the title of The Escaped Cock it drew words of high praise even from so belittling a Lawrence critic as John Middleton Murry. Devoutly orthodox Christians may find the story blasphemous (it will certainly be awarded a place on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitor urn) but regular Lawrence readers will doubtless take it as it was meant...
...handed giant turns on a rope high up under the Big Top. She fell and was killed when a trapeze ring broke with her in Copenhagen last February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths on his ship as it came up New York Harbor. There are still 800 other performers in the Circus, however-whip-crackers who knock the caps off bottles 50 ft. away; whooping cowboys; clowns who operate explosive Fords; agile gymnasts; "strange people from the far corners...
...days later beloved King Albert, Hero-Burgomaster Max of Brussels, the corps Diplomatique (with one exception), and the flower of the Belgian Army followed in solemn procession a gun carriage upon which rested a coffin within which was an urn containing ashes. The Papal Nuncio and Cardinal van Roey and the Belgian Army's Catholic chaplains kept their skirts clear of the funeral. The ashes were those of Lieut.- General Bernheim, during the War Belgian generalissimo, cremated by his own express command...
...lengthy volumes, a tale of history is here told in finely worked precious metal and gems explaining more tersely and no less clearly how the people in the dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need to be a Keats before a Grecian Urn to learn from these foster-children "of silence and slow time" the lessons which are still fresh from antiquity. The Greek civilization seems old, but the Chaldean revelations of the archaeologists are as old again. Yet, notwithstanding the lapse of time, art was even then one of the most enduring...