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...seventies, the eighties, and the nineties, this "Gazette" was a power in the land. Then all America, save for wicked Manhattan, was one vast hinterland. Men gathered their families under mansard roofs; little girls in gingham and pigtails kicked their high shoes against the scrollwork of the porch. When the broad highway was muddy wagon track, men made no stir to journey afield. The village bar answered a man's thirst; and in the village barber-shop every voice had its part...
...Cotton Textile Institute began selling cotton not to the thrifty but to the smart. Cotton makers concentrated on attractive weaves, chic modes. The spice of novelty was introduced through beach pyjamas, overalls, suntan frocks, quilted coats, printed slippers. Well did the cotton man's calico, gingham, piques, chambrays, gabardines lend themselves to these novelties. During the 1928-29 Palm Beach season cotton was an outstanding success. During the present season cotton fabrics have been conspicuously successful. Once sold to the smart world, it was certain that cotton would be sold to all the world. When sales are made...
...like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment so long as Sally Sherburne and Barry Gingham consent to do the Black Bottom...
...like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment so long as Sally Sherburne and Barry Gingham consent to do the Black Bottom...
...June afternoon; her secretary sat reading on the beach; thousands of people were bathing all round her, but with that dive Aimee McPherson vanished as completely as if she had stepped through a looking-glass into the Never-Never Land. Last week Aimee McPherson, in a gingham gown spattered with mud, tottered into the police-office of Douglas, Ariz., and told her story. "Mrs. McPherson...