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...fumbling in a coat pocket, he believed the burglar to be this friend hunting for a cigarette, and did not trouble himself further. The culprit was described by the visitor as a dark man, 5 feet 9 inches in height, wearing a light cap and a dark overcoat. He also added that on the way out he heard the robber saying "46 and 47 next" to an accomplice in the hall. This has been the cause of many theories as to the nature of the robbery...
...Esme, who has been nearly 40 years in the Diplomatic Corps, is tall, good-looking, gray-haired, gray-moustached, 60 years of age. On his arrival he was dressed in a dark gray fedora hat, a dark overcoat, blue suit, gray spats. His courtly manner had won him much popularity on the transatlantic voyage...
...part of most of us. So intent is he on making a good impression that he generally creates a bad one. He does not realize that people would concede him something in return for a larger concession of silence by him. He buys a $28 overcoat on a $32 salary, sweeps a girl off into matrimony in spite of her family, brings her back to live with her mother, penniless, in the same grand manner...
...that there is much talk of religion in the air (granted that the troubles of Messrs. Coolidge, Fall, Denby and Daugherty have largely replaced it for the moment). To look back a bit, there was the Heresy number of the "Advocate." Then "The Fool" with his rather silly Overcoat Hall came to town--at the theatre. Mrs. Fisher rendered a superb translation of Papini's "Life of Christ" and for a time that was in the foreground. The turmoil started by the bishops in Texas found an echo in the college world after the Indianapolis Conference last December, at which...
Most elderly graduates of colleges big and little can remember rushing to chapel in the cold of early Winter-mornings, sleepy, reluctant and with much trust to a long overcoat; but not all of them can remember that they profited largely from the performance of that stern duty. At the time they tried to agree with the prevailing belief, that anything painful was virtuous, but not all of them succeeding in doing it, and such as didn't still have their original doubts N. Y. Times