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White folks at Monte Carlo were enviously agog, last week, at the luck of a tall, tawny young woman who won prodigiously at Baccarat, cashed in her chips, stuffed into the décolleté bosom of her gown a bulging bundle of 1,000 franc notes, and whirled out upon the dance floor in the arms of one Earl Leslie...
Manhattan gallerygoers were all agog. They read the names Cezanne, Derain, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, all in one announcement. They rushed to the sedate, vermicular-stoned Wildenstein Galleries. There they paid $1 apiece for the benefit of the French Hospital, were permitted last week to maunder through two small rooms hung with 51 modernist French paintings of the first rank. Such a concourse is rare, even among Manhattan opportunities...
...whole country is agog over the Joe Forecast presidential prognostications, begun in last week's CRIMSON. Al. Smith made a trip to Boston to see me about it, and I agreed to meet him at the corner of Massachusetts and Huntington Avenues, Wednesday night. But I was so besieged by my admires, as I always am on my infrequent public appearances, that poor Al couldn't get near me. So he is still in the dark about the campaign...
Women who measure off the scale of happiness in units of jewels, cash and fame were agog, last week, at the unprecedented good fortune of three international damsels...
Vienna was agog last week when the German Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, arrived to return the official visit made a year ago to Berlin by the then Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Rudolph Ramek...