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...jockey. Nature had made him dark and small?but not quite lean enough for a jockey. Sometimes he had to take off so much weight before a race that he felt his skin did not quite fit him. This was hard on his health, made his complexion sallow and his digestive system awry. Nevertheless, he was considered one of the best jockeys of the Harry Payne Whitney stables. People were surprised last year when he suddenly left Mr. Whitney. He had a reason...
Second comings are less breathless than firsts. Mr. Arlen will not again encounter overt U. S. curiosity about his fancy waist and waistcoats, his night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends...
...Jury, half men, half women, seemed more attentive than the usual run of juries. They are all Michiganders, all know that Mr. Ford makes automobiles-but none of them had ever heard of Mr. Sapiro before the suit. Their religious complexion is: four Roman Catholics, two Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Congregationalist, one. German Lutheran, one Universalist, one with "leanings to Christian Science," one (Mrs. Anna Brown) not asked concerning her religion. A couple of Jews (one Orthodox, one Reformed) and a man who had once joined the Ku Klux Klan out of curiosity were ousted after the original drawings...
...whole complexion of the affair altered as Captain Wright testified last week on his own behalf and was cross-examined by Lord Gladstone's attorneys. At the trial Lord and Lady Gladstone sat together, venerable, glacial; and in the visitors' gallery sat famed (though slightly passÉ) dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; the Rt. Hon. Thomas P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons"; Lady Milner and many another...
Well limbed. His Imperial Highness stands 5 ft. 7 in. in his stockings. His complexion is a light olive tan. His features are regular, his eyes dark, level and un-slanting. He has climbed more mountain peaks than any other Alpinist of royal or imperial blood. He is an all 'round sportsman with a keen interest in baseball. His attire, when he landed from the Majestic, was faultless to the point of being inconspicuous: a derby hat, black coat, black suit, black tie and a correct white mourning shirt with narrow black stripes. Yet neither shopgirls nor stenographers yearned...