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When St. John Ervine, famed London playwright and drama-critic, came last September to Manhattan to write reviews for the New York World, the World asked certain show-guns to express their opinion of the appointment. Most replied in paeans to the critic, hoping thereby to make him flatter their productions. Not so Producer Philip Goodman. He wrote to the World in part as follows...
...dead these four or five years. Miss Lane Bryant, dressmaker, made negligees for fat women; Mrs. Lane Bryant Malsin, dressmaker, made garments to "conceal the condition" [of ma- ternity]. Lane Bryant, Inc., with stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore and Chicago, make fashions "which slenderize and flatter your figure . . . sizes 36 to 58 bust...
...They must have gone so far as to flatter me as being the man to have made Belgian stabilization! Need I say that I have had nothing whatever to do with Belgian stabilization, which is the work of that great statesman and great financier, Monsieur Emile Francqui? [TIME...
...library table, once held by the sterioptican and family album. The answer came partially with MARRIAGE MADE EASY by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins (The Century Co., New York, 1928, $1.25). When bridge and conversation fail it is one of those strange playthings which baffle the intelligence and flatter the vanity...
...National Committee declared himself for Kansas City, Mo. The Committee bridled and said it would not be led by the nose. Supporters of Committeeman William Henry Crocker of California obliged Chairman Butler to wait until the 20th ballot before they joined the draft-Coolidge delegates and the flatter-the-farmer delegates in obedience to Chairman Butler. The Republican National Convention will meet at "the heart of America," 1,089 delegates strong, on June...