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Quite alone in the courtyard of a mosque, Her Majesty the Queen of Persia recently raised her veil...
...gentlemen supported the trailing bridal veil of antique Brussels lace, priceless and some 20 feet long. Instead of a wreath, Princess Isabelle wore a bridal circlet of diamonds. Carrying a missal instead of a bouquet, and leaning on the arm of her father Prince Pierre, she led the royal procession in which walked 54 princes and princesses...
Died. Alexander Hamilton Revell, 73, retired board chairman of Alexander H. Re veil & Co., Chicago furniture dealers; in a fall from the ninth floor of Chicago's Drake Hotel (he had been in ill health, was losing his sight); in Chicago...
...past year there has been an almost unbroken veil of silence drawn over the progress of plans for the Chapel. During the last few months, however, increased activity among interested alumni has done much to further the actual construction of the Memorial. Over a considerable period of time, several complete plans have been drawn up and subsequently rejected; it is expected, however, that the present set will be submitted within a short while, and accepted by the alumni...
...written many a prose book which critics rank as high as any of his verse. An enthusiastic fictioneer, he sometimes lectures on the art. Married, he has four children, lives in London. Other books: Songs of Childhood, Poems, The Listeners and Other Poems, The Return, Peacock Pie, The Veil and Other Poems, The Riddle and Other Stories...