Word: keezers
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...that the band marched past Max Keezer's, where I was standing in the window, hired out for the day as a clothing dummy, and a very good dummy I make too, as Max allowed when he agreed to return my last year's flannels for two hours of standing in his window. I was, you see the first part of the display, the Before Cleaning. But never mind, never mind anything except that the parade was short, which is a vice in parades, and a virtue in women, depending on what the women are short...
...remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug and "So's your old man". Except for old Max Keezer, I did not meet a single friendly or civil person in Cambridge and I left in disgust before noon...
...could both be embodied in a visit to University Hall. For human interest, what more moving than a close-up of the daily organ-grinder? And as for mystery, the movie might make a real contribution to the world's knowledge by revealing the ways and means, of Max Keezer and those cherubs of doubtful extraction who have never been known to utter but one refrain: "Gimme a penny, Jack...
...Keezer was forced quite by accident to be ranked among patrons of the beaux arts, when he purchased the estate of the late Gilmore Clapp. When the estate came to Keezer there were some pictures in it, among them the Whistler etching...
...Keezer answered questions concerning his purchase, saying, "Yes, I bought an estate...Yes, there were some pictures, some etchings too...What are they? Oh, I can't tell about them...Well, one had a yacht...Oh, I don't know...Six or eight of them...Oh, yes, good pictures, the best...Come and see them at my store some time...