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Reasons for the upsurge in neckwear are twofold : 1) to retrim last year's dresses, and to trick up this year's limited wardrobe, 2) to allure and astonish men, who are anciently susceptible to a frill at the throat. To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs...
Football coaches all over the country should recognize this handwriting-on-the-wall and pay more attention to the frill artists of the game, instead of selfishly nursing only the players. Trainers will undoubtedly have something to say about the matter, especially in colleges where cheer leaders are exclusively female. Perhaps it would be advisable in such cases, to have them return for early-September practice with the squad. Then they could serve the double purpose of keeping up the morale of the players and getting themselves into the "pink" of condition...
...Work reached the 100 mark on its 31,000-marker tour, and spent the occasion with a notably stimulating bevy of working Americans-chorus girls. In its backstage once-over, Americans at Work picked up several pertinent facts & figures. Getting by in the chorus with face, form and a frill, for example, has been out for 20 years. A modern chorus girl must know her entrechats, also her chaine turns and tour-jetés, and do some singing on the side. At top form, she may expect as high as $75 a week, is usually out of front-line...
...where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast and fancy right hand work, leaving the rhythm and the chord changes of the left hand to the bass and guitar...
...name was Cavendish) gave Cambridge $31,500 to start a physics department. First building was a three-story, L-shaped affair which is still standing, though its once-white stone is now black with age. First director was James Clerk Maxwell, a Scotsman who as a schoolboy wore lace frill collars, a tunic and square-toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves) out of his head, then proved mathematically that their speed must equal that of light. British physical scientists rank...