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...Angeles and an ingenious ''treasure hunt." Some 70 sportsmen pilots entered the treasure hunt, sponsored by Pilot Bernarr Macfadden to advertise his Liberty magazine. The hunters were to start at St. Louis, hunt across country to Long Island for successive letters of LIBERTY spread in white cloth on the ground...
...Federal penitentiary at Atlanta is making 500,000 yd. of duck cloth for the bleaching and shrinking of which the Department of Justice has a contract at 2⅝? per yd. with Delta Finishing Co. of Philadelphia. The finished product the Department of Justice sells to the War Department at a fixed price. With the job about half done, the Delta concern lately informed the Justice Department that it was now operating under an NRA code, that costs had gone up 35%, that it could not complete its contract without more money from the U.S. The Justice Department was agreeable...
...waiting to Queen Victoria, an extra equerry to King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales's good friend, the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, in a honey-colored broad cloth coat of her mother's, plumed hat and rhinestone-studded gloves. Equally of the period and all in big feathery hats, the Countess Jean de Polignac, the Duchess d'Harcourt and the Countess Jean de Vogue arrived from Paris' socialite Olympus to agree that only Mrs. Trefusis...
...night before the Vagabond had lived again in Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...
...cloth for their uniforms he cut from the backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers...