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...Palmer House in Chicago, a convention city of great tipping expertise, a guest wearing crepe-rubber soles or a golf hat is marked down as a stiff; if his shoes are highly polished and he carries an attache case, he is a live one. Among the best tippers, say the Chicago experts, are furniture men, restaurateurs, clothiers and Shriners; the worst are doctors, Lions Club members, traveling salesmen and politicians. Cadillac owners and people with lots of luggage tend to be poor tippers. And perhaps no one is held lower than the "sanitation specialist." the hotel guest who hides...
...consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed everyone within spitting distance...
...Eugenia Sheppard: "Husbands even say that the little nothing is just a misnomer for that little rag." The little-nothing effect is often contoured to the individual buyer, thus cannot really be mass-produced. Nonetheless. Seventh Avenue is putting out inexpensive copies of the little nothing in silk and crepe for as little...
...accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish, but a semi-tailored interior of gold tone, savoy crepe...
There was, for example, The Lady in Crepe, a woman whose husband, according to the ballad popular in the 18905. had drowned in Long Island Sound. The mourning widow subsequently went fishing there...