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...seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part of the Palace of Westminster they were dallying overlong with a ceremony of quaint historic significance. They were rebuffing the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. . . . Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.C.M. B., B.D.S.O., receives $1,000 per annum ($4,860) for acting as the Black Rod, and carrying it: a massive staff of ebony surmounted by a golden lion. Last week he was sent, as usual, to summon the Speaker...
...boor, who enters a European theatre must tip the usher. At Parisian music halls the ushers, vociferously rampant, will, if not tipped, stand at one's elbow and cry: "Service! Service! SERVICE!" almost indefinitely.* Last week the publicity agent of the Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into...
...delight in the Equator is nothing more than a set of illusions. The "summer isles of Eden laying in dark purple spheres of sea" are, and embody much more, than grass skirts and ukeleles. Today, in his lecture in Economics 10b. at 9 o'clock in Widener U, Professor Usher will speak of the offstage tropics, under the title of "Modern Tropical Colonization; Its Purposes. Methods, and Ethical Concepts...
...following are the ushers who will work under the supervision of A. B. O'Neil,--Head Usher. Dudley Bell, H. W. Bragdon, L. D. Brayton, W. N. Bump, J. P. Chase, Henry Chauncey, J. P. Crosby, Langdon Dearborn, A. O. Fordyce, E. B. Jackson, V. O. Jones, Joseph Morill, William Mulford, P. H. Nitze, Edward Page. W. C. Peet, J. L. Pool, C. A. Pratt, W. J. Saltonstall, R. W. Sawyer, Daniel Simonds, H. W. Burns, R. W. Turner, John Watts, W. H. White...
...Improvements in the Technique of Navigation and Map Making in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", Professor Usher, Widener U. Economics...