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Through the narrow, shaggy valleys of Vermont, where flood waters boiled three months ago, a train of seven Pullman cars climbed, last week, from St. Albans near Lake Champlain to Waterbury in the Green Mountains. Thence it descended, with a 45-minute stop at Montpelier, the State capital, to White...
5) Smart details: a) ingenious, decorated sleeves; b) tiers and flares; c) fluttery bows, ties, scarfs; d) elaborate shoes of exotic leathers or cloths; e) hats mostly of straw, with some felt & straw combinations, many worn with a new nose veil effect.
Britishers delight in reading about such supermen as Ambrose Sheridan; supermen who rise to journalistic and then political eminence, who marry beautiful and frail aristocrats, who carry a bee in their derby bonnets about resuscitating the human race or the working classes of England. Author McKenna writes about his superman...
The Fanatics are moved to voluble (though sometimes static) excitement, by the inadequacies of marriage. In their effort to derive a suitable substitute, three acts of energetic controversy are consumed. Then, with the intention of giving trial marriage a totally unnecessary trial, the stage lovers, who 20 years ago would...
As the bouncing of the boat betrays the nearness of the eight ahead, the cox hitherto vociferous in his assertions that the crew is "right up on them" becomes suddenly silent. The time has come when he must earn his passage. Slowly, infinitely slowly, the bows curve in. Too much...