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...been a subject of heated argument ever since. Some say it began at a dance of one of the Chowder and Marching Clubs in the Bowery, when leaders of Manhattan's Irish society decided that tails cramped their style. Berry Wall, male fashion plate of the 'gos, claimed that his London tailor made him the first one. At any rate, the jacket took its name from the nobs' Tuxedo...
Today, as No. 1 U. S. Buyer, he still wastes too much time being nice to all comers. A weekend high-gos golfer, he holds a long-distance (not accuracy) driving record at Chicago's Bob O'Link Golf Club; he is said to have the longest, most exasperating hook outside a Wodehouse story. He smokes cigars, cigarets, and his huge fumigatory pipe, drinks Scotch highballs, dieted 20 Ib. off before going to Washington, has eaten them back on with interest. He hates exercise, said recently: "The only exercise I take now is walking in the funeral processions...
...troops should dig in for the winter pretty soon or try to strike on through, drive the Italians into the Mediterranean before they could poise a counterblow, went the long-nosed, aristocratic Commander in Chief who taught and led the Greek Army: General Alex ander Papagos (paa-paa-gos). Every morning, for two hours at Army Head quarters in Athens, he had conferred intently with Premier General "Little John" Metaxas. His enemies derided General Papagos as "Little John's" Papagei (parrot), overlooking the fact that the relationship between the two men is much like the Foch-Weygand relation: master...
...which the book always returns. Bit by bit the great tradition ran down like the clocks that "had gone dead in many hamlets that had hummed with life." In the '80s "society had lost its vital interests. . . . In the absence of motives its mind was becalmed." The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness." Soon Poet T. S. Eliot would find Boston "the wasteland...
...quite the box-office come-on she used to be, Miss West implements this return to her spiritual home in the gamy 'gos with the expert services of Director Edward F. Cline, the ex-Keystone Cop, who invented Bathing Beauties, and Producer Lester Cowan, who taught Hollywood (with You Can't Cheat an Honest Man) that Comedian Fields is at his best when he is playing Comedian Fields...