Derby Day Dreams Bring Art and Romance at Churchill Downs
A Derby crowd at Churchill Downs frames a dramatic chase as a blood bay colt races a rival under a stranger’s gaze. Duska Filson’s quiet presence draws painter Robert Saxon, while George Steele introduces connections to famed artists and a prospective South American attaché. The scene blends horse racing, social intrigue, and the promise of a landscape painting partnership.
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Labouchere Will Summary of Estate Provisions and Bequests
The late Henry Labouchere left an estate valued for probate at £622,806 with a net personality of £492,383. Executors McKenna and Thomas Hart Davies receive £1,000 and £100 yearly during acting. He bequeathed £10,000 to each of his brother Arthur’s three sons, £5,000 to Mrs. Alar Thorold, £2,000 for household and personal effects, and various legacies to his daughter the Marchesa di Rudini and others. Residue to his daughter for life, then a trust allowing £40,000 to be appointed to heirs, with shares to nephews John Labouchere, Max Labouchere, and niece Violet Matthews. Trustees barred from UK real securities. allowed certain foreign and specific securities.
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Thomas Hart Davies
Labouchere
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Alar Thorold
Tuscany
Marchesa di Rudini
Villa Cristina
Florence
George Henry Lewis
John Labouchere
Max Labouchere
Violet Matthews
United Kingdom
South Africa
Canadian Pacific
Dictionary Abridgment Ambiguity Antiquity Parody
A compact excerpt from a dictionary abridgment lampoons terms with playful definitions. It mocks verbosity and pretension by redefining words like Abridgment Ambiguity Ancestry and Antiquity as social foibles and age stereotypes. The piece blends satire with lexicographic whimsy.
Fragmented Moral Diction From Obscure Almanac Entry
A garbled catalog of terms and distorted definitions mocks social norms with violent imagery and satirical labels. It lampoons miscreants, appetite, argument, and fools, then shifts to blunt examples of vice, superstition, and corrupt trades, ending with a jumble of ceremonial nonsense.
Mistral’s Dog and a Prize for Animals
The poet Mistral writes that his dog Barboche, a French pooch he saved as a waif, may be the reincarnation of a Gallo Roman slave tied to a millstone. He received the Prix du President de la Republique from L Assistiner aux Animaux and attributes part of his luck to Barboche’s influence.
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L'Assistiner Aux Animaux
Society of Help For Animals
Barboche
Barbacie
Caniche
Butterflies in Burma
In Lower Burma a traveler describes vast swarms of butterflies along the trail, bright hues like silk-clad Burmese maids near railroad stations, fluttering before horses and lighted on the path ahead as the narrator notes Buddhist beliefs about butterfly spirits guiding or warning the living, and the grave necessity of restraining awakenings.
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Burma
King George K ebooks Sandringham for future use
The article states Sandringham remains King George's for now with Queen Alexandra’s life use and a future wish for it to be a dower house while the king can dispose of it when he sees fit. It also recounts Fraulein Braune misusing English words, confusing transom with register in a humorous anecdote.
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Sandringham
Queen Alexandra
Edward
King George
George
Fraulein Braune
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