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...divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He had better sense. To the consternation of every Druid, the Duke had come to the banquet clad in white linen trousers, soft shirt & collar...
...gratitude for small favors. It is this which causes her first mishap: a brief affair with lonely old Senator Brander who dies before he has time to marry her. To support her illegitimate daughter, Jennie gets a job as lady's maid in a patrician menage where the linen closets are large enough for téte-à-tétes with the chipper young son of the family. Lester Kane (Donald Cook). The romance between Lester and Jennie develops gaily enough until he goes to Chicago to manage a branch office in his father's business. Jennie...
...elaborate hall of Lady Vittal das Thackersey's marble villa outside Poona squatted more than 100 persons last week-Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Christians-all gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible...
...milling, jostling, sweating crowd choked the corridors of the Senate Office Building. Men in white linen suits, women with hats askew and hair straggling damply into their eyes, fought to get into a stifling room long since jammed to the doors. The room was that of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Within was beginning the Biggest Show of its kind in recent memory: not only the public examination of the House of Morgan, but the personal appearance of the almost legendary figure who is its chief- John Pierpont Morgan...
...past: a confession of guilt to an arson charge in 1913; a 20-month sentence to Leavenworth in 1915 for stealing from freight cars. Last week Chicago papers promised that the Rosenberg trial "would rival that of Capone," would painfully air a basketful of local and Statewide dirty Democratic linen...