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...train going from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Outside my window is the most beautiful country in the world. High taxes will soon make it a howling wilderness. . ." The voice faded off, like the siren, and a darker cloud took the place of the first one. This voice was gayer and sounded as if it were having a good time...
...should have appeared in court on their new underpinnings instead of on short crutches (see cut). Shropshire explained that they had not learned to use the new legs yet. Barnes seldom said anything except: "I disremember." Prosecutor John Carpenter also livened things up by appearing every day in a gayer ensemble than the day before, while Judge Wilson ("Coot") Warlick maintained a running fire of admonition from the bench: "Keep your shirts on. . . . Somebody will...
...great Unitarians and had contributed to the worthy from the stores laid up by their slave-trading, rum-running, bundling ancestors, were losing their grip. The day of the Copley-Plaza arrived, and with it cosmetics, and the knowledge that the world is large. Entertainment was a bit gayer, a bit grander, though never ostentatious. And every Back Bay Lass chosen for the Vincent Club looked a bit closer for the right undergraduate from Cambridge. For then Boston was Harvard...
Byfield. Although his four hotels are in receivership Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield is today Chicago's most famed hotel keeper. A shrewd and amusing businessman whose friends range from Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd to Accordionist Phil Baker, he owns the quiet, fashionable Ambassador East, the gayer Ambassador West where Ernie Byfield entertains leading stage and screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims...
Benito Mussolini put on his gold embroidered frock coat, sword, trousers with gold stripes, decorations, hat like an admiral's only much gayer. It was an Italian holiday, newly named Lateran Treaty Day. Crowds thronged the Tiber's banks. Honored _ guests at the Vatican included Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved...