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...chattered gleefully with the exuberance of 17, waved a dutiful goodbye to stout ladies in waiting, was Girl Guide Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau. As she sat, perforce upright, upon a brightly varnished but angular third class bench, few would have supposed her the sole heir to one of Europe's largest and most thriftily hoarded fortunes. Throughout the week, as she did camp girl duty (cooked, scrubbed, mended) few chance visitors guessed that this bright-eyed buxom girl was Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, heir to the throne...
...dentist's waiting room, will cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which he attaches, from dismayed friends, the trifling bits of capital necessary to promote such glittering projects as a trick-dog college; a serious...
...Manhattan theatre dressing room, a tall, angular actor scrubbed furiously at the grease paint on his gaunt features. The curtain had just rung down on his matinee (That Smith Boy) and he* had an engagement even more pressing than seeing a manager at the Algonquin or sipping something cold in a friend's flat. He jerked on his overcoat, flung himself into a taxi, leaped out again at the Seventh Regiment Armory, where he plunged into a dense crowd of humanity and was seen no more, until he emerged in tennis costume on a brilliantly illuminated court surrounded...
...gentle, deliberate way, Dr. Drury has broadened and stimulated life at St. Paul's in his 15-year administration. His personality has had a compelling and retentive effect upon the alumni, who are now organized and have assisted in the establishment of scholarships and an endowment fund. Tall and angular of frame, sandy-haired and lantern-jawed, he has the mien of an old school schoolman, beneath which lie the combined capacities of militant churchman, practical moralist and sagacious promoter. He is a familiar figure not only on his school grounds but in the colleges and offices...
...delegates assembled for their first session. A letter from President Coolidge was read by Eugene E. Thompson (Crane, Paris & Co., Washington). Many of the delegates thought that the President himself was reading to them, for Mr. Thompson strongly resembles Mr. Coolidge, except that he is not quite so angular. The President stated that he approved of the Association's efforts to stop the sale of unsound securities. Then an epistle from Secretary Mellon was read. Mr. Mellon explained why it is to the interest of U. S. prosperity to curb the issuance of tax-exempt securities...