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...Army and Navy custom of wearing civilian clothes while among civilians has brought down many a gibe on officers with rumpled pants, stringy cravats. Most of the gibing has been done at officers in Washington, where wearing uniforms except on unusual or ceremonial occasions is distinctly bad form. (The custom originated as a supposed sop to pacifists and Congressmen with antimilitary constituencies.) Last week, awl-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Navyman, joined the chorus of gibers. Wrote...
...flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire was put out 30,000 people were homeless and an epidemic threatened...
Even though his eighty-first year will roll by this coming April, Copey's golden voice, which has flattered many a poem since his readings became famous, has never wavered. His custom of conferences with all who want to meet the famous professor, has kept him in constant touch with undergraduate life...
Quivered blonde, pants-wearing Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich: "When I started the custom of wearing men's trousers I never dreamed it would spread to such universal proportions. ... It actually makes me shudder when I see fat, squat women waddling around in slacks...
...evidence:* in the early summer of 1813, Frau Wagner journeyed with her newborn infant smack through the middle of a Napoleonic war to visit Geyer, who was playing at a spa in Bohemia. She left six moppets-the youngest aged two-at home in Leipzig. Contrary to the custom of the times, Richard was not baptized until twelve weeks after his birth. His legal father died three months later. Widow Wagner married Geyer the following summer, bore him a daughter six months after the wedding...