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...male, he must keep in mind Lord Chesterfield's admonition, "If you are not in fashion, you are nobody," and Robert Burton's warning, "He is only fantastical that is not in fashion...
Henry Cross was a plump man who wore rimless spectacles, a chesterfield and a walrus mustache. He was also mighty adventurous. Born in upper New York State in 1837, he twice ran away with circuses, and at 16 made his way to Paris, where he learned animal painting from Rosa Bonheur. On his return, he went west with a circus, painting the animals and developing an interest in Indian life. Later he decorated circus wagons for P. T. Barnum, finally decided his life was too tame and set forth in search of savages...
Born. To James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 47, North Carolina University cheerleader who became a bandleader and radio star (the College of Musical Knowledge), then retired to his old college town, and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 32, former model for Chesterfield ads: their third child, third daughter; in Durham, N.C. Name: Amanda Kay. Weight...
...platform at Pittsfield had gathered the pols with their gray vests and Chesterfield coats. They were the same pols that always show up for the St. Patrick's Day parade or the opening day at Lincoln Downs, but this time they were waiting for the Democratic nominee for president. They smoked their cigars just the same and they talked ward politics as usual, and only when the sound of the train became too loud did they straighten their coat collars and snuff out their cigars...
...calendar year was only 26 seconds ahead of the sun which means that each 3,323 years one day must be dropped. (Impending drop: 4905 A.D.) By the 18th century, only Russia, Protestant Sweden and England were holdouts against the "Popish" calendar. In 1752 the elegant Lord Chesterfield persuaded Parliament to give in to Gregory. "It was not . . . very honorable to England to remain in gross and unavowed error," he said, "especially in such company [as Russia ]."*But there was feverish agitation against the innovation. Lord Parker, son of the astronomer who had helped Chesterfield draw up his bill...