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...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...
...President Coolidge received the football team of the Newman Preparatory School (Lakewood, N. J.). They wore their dressiest civilian clothes, of course, and the President said: "I am glad to see that your trousers are not flopping around on the ground." Recalling a similar episode last year, when some collegiate callers had worn floppy trousers and been chivvied about them by the President, a newspaper headlined: "BELL BOTTOM DRIVE MAY MAKE COOLIDGE STYLE CZAR...