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WINNER TAKE NOTHING-Ernest Hem-ingway-Scribner...
...work of their minds. . . . They admitted that Hemingway was yellow, he is. Gertrude Stein insisted, just .ike the flatboat men on the Mississippi river as described by Mark Twain ... he looks like a modern and he smells of the museums. But what a story that of the real Hem. and one he should tell himself but alas he never will. After all, as he himself once murmured, there is the career, the career." Gertrude Stein once told him: "Hemingway, after all you are 90% Rotarian. Can't you. he said, make it 80%. No. said she regretfully...
...shop on the Champs Elysees, showed sports dresses of natural burlap with clothesline girdles; Jane Regny had a combination evening gown and bathing suit; Gabrielle Chanel had gloves of 18-carat spun gold; Maggy Rouff showed evening gowns with a zipper down the front from neck to hem "for moonlight bathing." Ruffling through their notebooks, buyers reported the following definite trends for 1933 summer fashions: ¶ Waists will be lower, lines will be definitely straighter and looser. Sleeves are moderately full, shoulders continue high, wide & handsome. The dramatic Elsa Schiaparelli shows Japanese sleeves with artificial shoulder stiffening. Dress lines will...
...readers who include most of the peerage what seemed to him to be the actual mode this year: "A tight-fitting bodice of transparent muslin with a skirt which may be made in one of two ways: either it is a mass of narrow frills from waist to hem or is gathered at the waist and flows outward, measuring goodness knows how many yards in circumference around the feet...
Gistermiddag zou te Middelburg een 49-jarige slagersknecht in de centrale slachtplaats een koe slachten. Op het oogenblik, dat hij het schot wilde afvuren, stootte de koe hem met den kop het pistool uit de handen. Door den val ging het schot af en trof den man in den bulk. Deze was dadelijk dood...