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...recently because of 'ill health' was forced to retire because he was Harry Thawish. . . . What theatrical att'y has terpsichorines fired from shows when they do not go out with his 'particular' and 'eminent' friends? . . . Dunhill's wishes what Big Eye-Glass Man would pay his cigar bills? . . . What'll y'bet that Yolande Lossee of the Club Calais, and one of John W. Davis' nevviews ankled up a secret altar Satdee and then parted? . . . And that the late Andrew Carnegie's nevview Harry Sproul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On The Spot? | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...strewn around in graceful confusion; and amid a litter of clubs, dumb bells, and c., sits the famous crew. There is a pair of parallel pars at the end of the boat, and the stroke is always in great danger of being kicked in the head and having his eye-glass disarranged. The chest-weights take up one side of the room, and when in use, the men on the flying rings have to stand aside. In fact, there is so very little room anywhere that pneumatic machines have to be used by the oarsmen, instead of hydraulic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Columbia Gymnasium. | 4/22/1885 | See Source »

Lost. About two weeks ago, a nickel eye-glass frame containing one glass. Finder will please leave with Fred at Drury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 4/25/1883 | See Source »

Lost. About two weeks ago, a nickel eye-glass frame containing one glass. Finder will please leave with Fred at Drury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 4/24/1883 | See Source »

...could bear this no longer. Rising to my full height, I adjusted my left heel against my right calf. I cocked my eye, and held to it an imaginary eye-glass, Then with an air of tremendous importance I remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

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