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...salesman, dressed in the kind of clothes the Club men will be discovering early this spring, teetered back and forth on his crepe soles and hummed a Harvard football song to show the young gentleman they were really both just typical college guys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

This put a bee in the cap of an Annapolis midshipman named Joseph SpielVogel. He left Annapolis and one day, while studying engineering in Newark, N. J., he found himself fingering some crepe paper in a 5? & 10? store. The result was the Vogel-type aligning paper which he put on the market in 1934. It is a finely corrugated paper, ruled so that it can be torn in narrow horizontal strips and cemented to a backing sheet. The typist writes on the corrugated side and, when finished, takes a pair of tweezers, lifts the strips loose, stretches them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Typewriter Printing | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Pierre, that's tout. You have had your crepe suzette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...recognized and hilariously appreciated source of an international guffaw. Only by reconstructing the characters in the strip does Piccadilly Jim restore the abused Petts to sanity, establish himself with Ann, preserve his father from masquerading, for Eugenia's sake, as a Danish Count in tortoise-shell glasses and crepe whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures: Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...satin pants. When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened play by cutting a crepe-paper ribbon, then whipped the lopsided ball she has used for 33 years down the alley for a strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Congress Inc. | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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