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...style so thoroughly that the Polish-American tennist now stands No. 3 in U. S. rankings. Further, Coach Beasley took Frankie away from Widow Anna Pajkowski, who was busy supporting five children, adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville, kept him well stocked with Mercer Beasley rackets and white flannel pants...
...tall, weighs one hundred and seventy pounds, ruddy complexion, brown wavy hair, perfect teeth, black eyebrows, long black eyelashes, usually smiling. He has a small irregular scar on lower part of abdomen. He is very good looking and a neat dresser. When last seen he had on a blue flannel coat and gray trousers...
...characters in this bromidic fable are superficial, the emotional appeal obvious. There are coy references to the hectic speed of the bicycle era and red flannel underwear, but Miss Skinner almost atones for these commonplaces by the varied distinction of her acting. Not only does she play Edna at crucial stages of her life, she impersonates seven other characters besides. Broadly caricatured and really funny is her dowager Dolly McElroy, millionaire wife of a Chicago meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck...
...remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder, she stayed up half the night filling gaily bound notebooks with illegible maxims intended...
...English 2 "Shakspere: Six Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the examination with its long memory question and its 60 to 70 "spot" passages was terror of many finals and mid-years. Professor Kittredge with his spotless beard, and his pearl gray flannel, and his glasses that flew up the lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his injunctions against coughing, has devoted this last year to the production of a work containing the lest known text of all the plays of Shakspere. He is frequently seen striding across the Yard...