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...Portland, Ore., though well aware that nobody supposes he has barnstormed for his health through 45 States in the past twelvemonth, he made formal announcement that he is a candidate for the GOPresidential nomination. > He disposed of another ritualistic prerequisite for election by being inducted, feather bonnet and all, as "Flying Eagle," into the Blackfeet Indian tribe at Great Falls, Mont...
...Then, of ciurse, we cannot forget OUR BOY . . . to OUR BOY we leave the following: some assorted grimaces, a half-dozen new stances, our love, and a New Revised copy of School Regs. . . . Corley: the telephone number of the best decorated bank in Cambridge (especially the rear windows). . . . "Feather Merchant" Cassell: A set of life rafts in case of unseasonal heavy rains in the Boston area--size 14. . .. AND, to SINBAD: anything he dam well wants! . . . ditto the rest of you guys--this is thirty from...
High point of the show is the ten or 15 minutes that Breneman spends trying on the audience's hats, which he refers to as "this molting feather duster" or "something special in the way of a potholder." Some women now deliberately show up with their most eccentric headgear, sit waiting for Breneman's onslaught...
Producers who might be impressed draw the color line. Most of Mabel's public performances have been before astonished passers-by who line Rockefeller Center's outdoor rink, where she occasionally practices. Negro audiences, however, will soon see her in full feather. Mabel Fairbanks last week signed up to skate and star in a full-length, Harlem-financed movie with an all-Negro cast, Sepia Cinderella...
...filled with the children of her old school mates, neat, precise, churchgoing, independent, heartbreakingly lonely, she lived alone in the mansion she inherited, an exemplification of the remoteness of the culture she taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class. She earned her $2,100 a year. At night, after she had graded papers, she cooked a chop and potatoes, carried her supper into the big empty dining room, lit the chandelier, put a book beside...