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...Gold braid and Sam Browne belts go on mass parade as the grand march of the annual Military Ball swings down the dance floor of the Copley-Plaza at 10.30 o'clock tomorrow evening...
Left. By the late Lord Riddell, publisher of News of the World (TIME, Dec. 17): some $9,490,000; to his widow ($500,000 and an annuity of $40,000); to servants, charities; to Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and Golfer James Braid ($5,000 each...
...their ladies. Sensation of the evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember when the Senator from Idaho had previously attended such a White House function. "I came." said Senator Borah nobly...
...judges asks. Another is an uncowed, sharp-tongued individual named George Khitov (Walter Greaza), who denounces the accusation as a frame-up, the witnesses as tools of the National Party. When the beefy, ranting Minister of Culture & Enlightenment (Romaine Callender) appears in a uniform ablaze with gold braid and epaulets, he is driven to apoplectic frenzy by Khitov's thrusts: "If this court does not deal with you, you scoundrel," he bellows, "I'll deal with you myself...
...unknown. Said he: "It is my belief that England's freedom from crime today is largely due to that wise period when you hanged a man for stealing a loaf of bread." He made all farms taxfree, prohibited all forms of advertising. If anyone was found wearing gold braid he was made Vice Admiral of the non-existent navy, given no salary but forced to wear a uniform so excessively expensive that its cost ruined...