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...Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity and reverts to fragile silk hose, mascara, rouge, lipstick, perfume, corsets and eye-strain for her husband's sake. This theme is presented with a truly incredible number of historic wheezes and situations...
...Richey and the President's son, Allan, to salvage the President's papers. President Hoover rubbed his hands, stroked his hair nervously, called to the firefighters: "Save my files!" He saw the drawers of his desk lugged out safely. It was very cold. Water froze on the hose lines, smeared the furnace-like structure with tentacles of ice. Without rubbers, the President's feet got wet and cold. At the height of the conflagration he remembered his little guests in the White House, returned to bid them a ceremonious goodnight. For three hours the fire burned, gutting...
...Goodyear, Founder Schrader began to manufacture a variety of metal parts for rubber products. When pneumatic tires were made for bicycles he introduced a new valve, now used on 85% of automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools, and the original product, diving suits. The Scovill Co. derived from its purchase a twofold benefit -it secured in Schrader a prosperous subsidiary plus a large user of Schrader metal...
...grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted...
...Garden and listening to the lady musicians. . . . My sister and I were given chocolate to drink, and huge slices of cake, while the elders drank their beer. . . . When I was ten years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships as a gymnasium . . . learned to swim in the fish cars. . . . For a time I had a West Indian...