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...hills. He brought the regenerate to God, and now with a congregation of 7,886 and with 27 branch Sunday Schools has the largest Presbyterian Church in the world on his hands. He is a tall, slender, white-haired Lion of Judah, 63. He habitually wears a frock coat and, like the late William Jennings Bryan whom he much resembles in dogmatic religious zeal, he affects a broad-brimmed slouch...
...events. Derby Day at Yale, the day of the first big spring regatta, usually falls before Derby Day at Churchill Downs. It is a festival touched by ceremonious mania, causing juniors to add to the gaiety of fraternity houseparties the absurd and jovial dignity of top-hats, frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made...
...left grammar school to be an artist, studied at the Slade School in London under Alphonse Legros, a meticulous draughtsman and a pupil of Ingres. The Ingres-Legros influence is still obvious in Rothenstein's drawing. A preternaturally solemn youth of 17 in a long black frock coat, he went to Paris to enter the Academic Julian...
Happy as a waterbug which has just swum around a bowl of soup, Dr. Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion City, Ill., last week landed in Manhattan after a cruise around the world. To him, of course, it had been a cruise around the edge of the world, the circumnavigation of a soup-plate whose centre is the North Pole...
Serious Matters? Eve Garrette Grady wrote that she learned not to laugh when clothes-hungry Russians asked her on the street for how much she would sell, then and there, her panama hat, her white linen frock, even her silk stockings...