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...lumber millionaire, to one Howell Howard of Dayton; in Chicago, at the Cathedral of the Holy Name. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra played the wedding march. Cardinal Munclelein officiated. Tito Schipa, famed tenor, sang. The Hines family had caused the interior of the Cathedral to be done over in red velvet, had filled in with flowers, had spent, it was reported, more than $100,000, The arrival and departure of 2,000 guests was facilitated by lines of policemen stationed to keep back a great multitude of idlers...
...Cathedral done over in red velvet...
...from a fellow-student is not inaccurate for his entire career As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...
Stevenson himself said that he was forced to keep low company because he could not afford better. "I was the companion of seamen, chimney-sweeps and thieves," says he, "not without a touch of swagger." To his disreputable drunken intimates of bars and "howffs", he was known as "velvet-coat," and amongst them he sowed his wild oats with a generous hand. He was socially ostracised. Victorian smugness turned on him a discreet back...
...innumerable; also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...