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...sporty dresser, he used to put on mourning when any of his own men fell in battle. He wore flashy diamonds, a rose in his lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...
...Thus it happened, in the Pankhurst days of violent "Suffragets " that Queen Mary received the terrible shock of answering her boudoir telephone and having rudely shouted at her: "Are you for votes for women?" The Suffragets had wormed the secret code out of Miss Constance Selby, the Queen's dresser, for whose ability to arrange tastefully a shop-window-full of diadems on the royal person (see front cover) Her Majesty had such respect that she did not discharge the wretch...
...majority of the party left Boston, Wednesday evening, June 19, in a special car for Montreal, where Thursday, June 20, was spent in an investigation of the geology of Mount Royal and vicinity under the efficient guidance of John Dresser, geologist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. From Montreal the party traveled by a special car attached to the Transcontinental Limited of the Canadian National Railway to Noranda, Quebec. Here the evening of June 21 was spent underground in the mine of the Horne Copper Corporation. Howard M. Butter field, '26, and Roger Peale, '21, initiated the embryo geologists into...
Under your discussion Dec. 23 of Theodore Dreiser you say (His song writing brother Paul, author of "The Wabash Blues" still calls himself Dresser...
...more than fifteen years. (See Twelve Men-"My Brother Paul.") He in collaboration with his brother Theodore wrote our famous State song, "On the Banks of the Wabash" and not "The Wabash Blues." There is a movement on foot in Terre Haute, Ind., to bring the body of Paul Dresser back to Indiana and bury it with honors in a beautiful park beside the Wabash River. ARTHUR H. SAPP...