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Every member of President Paul von Hindenburg's household, from his bashful scrubwoman to his self-important State Secretary, sat down to lunch at one long table in the drawing room two days before Christmas. Beside pallid, big-jowled Old Paul sat his buxom, apple-cheeked typist. The flustered scrubwoman sat next to the President's handsome son, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter, had the hall porter on her right. A telephone girl sat with bespectacled State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner who had very little to say. Across the table...
...should not outlaw Communism in Germany. We can deal with those people better when they are openly organized." In Winnipeg, Canada, buxom Mrs. H. von Schleicher delights to talk about "my brother-in-law" the new Chancellor. "He is very funny and very witty, with a charming personality!" she bubbled recently. "But he believes in biding his time. He wants to see what others will do first. Kurt has always been like that...
...defeat of her half-brother also numbered the happy days of big, buxom, buoyant Dolly Curtis Gann as Second Lady of the Land. From a modest vine-clad house in Cleveland Park she had risen to queen it over Washington society. The nation's snickers at her battle for precedence over Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the late Speaker's wife, had left her unabashed. She it was who kept her brother Charlie's backbone stiff in demanding every honor due the Vice President. She had come to fancy herself as a political spellbinder and G.O.P. headquarters found...
Spectators and newsmen shrank back in fear of what might happen if these angry thousands turned violent. The plaza remained uncleared. Waters was brought out and exhibited to his followers. He surlily refused to command them to retreat. Dangerous tension was broken when a buxom, yellow-haired woman leaped to the stand. She was Marotta Arsonis, a New York trained nurse who had befriended the B. E. F. Seizing a megaphone, she yelled: "Be calm, men! Be calm! Let's sing." She tuned up with "America...
Your most interesting account and genealogy of "Bull" Durham in TIME, July 4, under Animals does not take into account a story which has circulated in these parts since the advent of the "lugubrious-passioned buxom Holstein cow" into the tobacco advertisements. This mid-western story is that one of the old style "Bull" Durham ads appeared on a Minnesota highway just across a pasture fence in which pasture a Swede farmer pastured his Holstein herd of fine dairy cows. Soon the farmer found a decline in his milk supply, later it was discovered that his cows spent their daylight...