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...Rothschilds have been an important family in almost every Capital of the world ever since their clever forbear made his financial coup at the time of the Battle of Waterloo. At Paris, in different ways, the family has exerted considerable influence. But, last May, Baron Maurice de Rothschild was defeated at the elections. In July, he successfully contested a constituency in the Alps Maritime, defeating a Radical Socialist candidate. This is, allegedly...
...group of men fidgeted on a platform in Waterloo Station, London. Trains puffed in, carriage doors flew open, a host of grinning Americans and Canadians flocked out. The fidgeters, English reception committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, sprang into action, shook hands, in every direction, loaded the grinners into a fleet of taxis, chugged off with them toward the Strand to the 20th Annual International Advertising Convention...
...artistic display, perfect in taste and in texture. Decorated interiors, varying in merit, may be observed in six rooms, one of 1750 with Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits, a Handel duet on the table; one of 1815 designed to reproduce the character of a sitting- room of the Becky Sharp-Waterloo period; the 1852 room of the now so fashionable mid-Victorian era is the most amusing, every available inch strenuously decorated-that great age when even ladies were upholstered; the 1888 room is all preRaphaelite, with the arts, crafts and esthetics of William Morris, Holman Hunt and deMorgan pottery; ending...
...London subway system with the exception of the Waterloo and City Tube belongs to the London Traffic Combine The lines, eight in number, form a network of underground communications encircling and radiating from, the centre of London The ticket system is used, payment being made according to class and distance desired to travel. Smoking is permitted in smoking compartments on all lines...
...Annapolis varsity crew. The Navy alumni covered the distance in six minutes and seven seconds, still further lowering the record, with Pennsylvania grabbing second place. These four crews will meet tomorrow in the finals, and it looks as if Yale's wonder crew was about to meet its Waterloo...