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Warning?Line Ripped Up and Mined in Several Places?Down With the Prince of Wales???The Train Must Not Proceed or It Will Be Fired...
Boldly displayed without an accompanying article of any kind was a map of England and Wales???such a map as no living man could make of the U. S., for the necessary information does not exist. Entitled lugubriously WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS: Unemployment At A Glance, the map shows from official statistics of the Ramsay MacDonald Labor Government exactly the percentage of unemployment in each and every British county, not forgetting "Salop" the concise if nonsensical abbreviation for "Shropshire...
...Company, had arranged a last performance in the famous place. Under the huge chandelier that once had gravely lighted the 3,000 elegants in hoop-skirts and tight trousers who danced there one memorable night (Oct. 12, 1860) under the eyes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales??? upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field marshals in old age. But the people...
...usually been kept on display in one of the guest rooms of the White House. When the present Edward of Wales visited the U. S., he examined the old four-poster with some interest, for once, during the Buchanan Administration, it had been used by a previous Prince of Wales??? he who later became Edward...
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