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...same day that the President had his heavily-guarded ride, Mrs. Roosevelt, swinging down Manhattan's Madison Avenue afoot, stopped into the hat shop of Lilly Dache. With ten minutes to spare before keeping an appointment, she tried on four hats, bought two. Said the sales-clerk who knew Mrs. Roosevelt of old: "She is one that either likes a thing or she doesn't. But she has improved in style a lot in the last few years, I'm glad...
...heart in French and had up to last week written out twelve copies by memory. Before making Mutiny on the Bounty he went to London, said to Gieves, Bond Street tailors: "I wish to inquire about some uniforms you made some time ago for Captain William Bligh." Said the clerk: "Yes sir, and about what was the date, sir?'' Said Actor Laughton: "1789." Gieves promptly produced the exact specifications of the uniforms worn by Captain Bligh, had a complete set copied for Actor Laughton to wear in the picture...
...London's charity clinics last week went a strong-smelling, matted old man who told the entry clerk that he was 80 years old. In the examining room, an interne ordered the octogenarian to be forthwith soaked and scrubbed. Cried the oldster: "Don't put me in the bath! I've never had a bath! It will kill...
Last year onetime Representative Hogan was indicted on a charge of extorting $725 from two would-be plumbers after promising to fix them up with city licenses. Last April Federal authorities turned him up for another piece of business. As confidential clerk to the Collector of the Port of New York, they charged, he had taken $100 apiece from three Italians who had entered the U. S. illegally, needed some political fixing to get their first citizenship papers...
Knuckle Down? Having raised this issue, honest Broker Laval was visited daily thereafter by cultivated but crusty Sir George Clerk. This be-monocled British Ambassador looks and acts very much like the sort of diplomat Gilbert & Sullivan set to the bray of trumpets. So frequent and so overbearing were Sir George's calls that tempers were progressively lost until extreme London newsorgans like the Star began to report that, unless M. Laval knuckled down completely to His Majesty's Government, he would soon find himself forced to resign as Premier of France because all Frenchmen would see that...