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Editor Straus persuaded Violinist Jacques Gordon ($1,000 per concert) of the Chicago Symphony to make the experiment. In smoked glasses, matted grey wig. tattered frock coat, Fiddler Gordon posted himself at a busy Michigan Avenue corner, fiddled for 30 minutes on his $40,000 Stradivarius. Pennies, nickels, dimes from passersby totalled...
...funeral frock coats and stiff choker collars, Reichstag deputies joined President Paul von Hinderburg last week in a memorial service for Germany's War dead. Of the 2,000,000 Germans who were killed during the War, only 200,000 or 10% lie buried in German soil...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...
...celestial fish-fry the Lord God, in the simple frock-coated image of a benignant Negro pastor, creates the world and leaves to inspect his handiwork, declaring, "I'll be back Saturday." Then are exhibited the careers of Adam and Eve, of Cain and of Noah, who is commanded to live aboard an Ark while a world given over to dicing, short skirts, and all manner of Evil is submerged beneath the floods. Years later the Lord God selects Moses to lead his people out of the land of Pharaoh. Pharaoh's palace is depicted as a glorified...
...battery of cannon under his charge. Inside the stadium 50,000 people bought hot frijoles (baked beans roasted in corn husks) and cold beer from shrill peddlers, gazed impatiently at the platform garlanded with red and white carnations, green palm leaves, where sat the entire Mexican Congress, frock-coated, silk-hatted, and a brave detachment of Generals in navy blue, black and gold braid...