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...White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli." "Cal he was, Cal he is." "Fate pointed the path and the country lost a Chief-Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread...

Author: By C. Macv., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/10/1923 | See Source »

Speaking from his early experience, Professor Perry described first the old fashioned type of pedagogical professor, who "wore silk hats and frock coats, and were as eager to save the soul as to instruct the mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERRY CONTRASTS TEACHING METHODS | 9/29/1923 | See Source »

...being " off the subject" as Sir William Orpen's painting To the Unknown British Soldier. Gill's work represents Christ with a seven-thonged whip, driving before him a woman with a vanity case, a man with a pawnbroker's emblem, men in top hats and frock coats. The sculptor explained: " We still have money-changers in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Off the Subject | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...Italians as Fascisti and voted to petition the President to refuse an interview to "reactionaries and enemies of labor." At the same meeting a Laborite protested against a proposed invitation to U. S. Rotary Clubs to hold a convention in Mexico City next year. He said that "silk-hatted, frock-coated Rotarian Fascisti from the United States were no less enemies of a socialistic revolutionary nation than the black-shirted Italians." The protest was carried amid roars of applause. The labor unions are determined to uphold their viewpoint-with a general strike if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Enemies of Labor | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...blue Peter Pan frock, a white organdie collar, white cuffs, a straw mushroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point with Pride: Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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