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...they recounted an embarrassing incident that lately befell their No. 1 guest, 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor in the Federated Malay States. The Sultan, happily attired to meet the demands of East & West in yellow silk trousers and a European overcoat, stood boggle-eyed before the hotel's rapidly twirling swing-door, was completely baffled. With Oriental arrogance he tried to pass through in the opposite direction to that in which the door was turning, got his yellow trousers caught, only managed to escape after muttering Malayan curses. More successful...
...which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street, the cinema - are swimming for their...
...outskirts. Italian patrols were busy mopping them up. One hustled around to the U. S. legation on an SOS from Minister Cornelius van H. Engert. Plucky Mrs. Engert took time off to tell reporters how during the days of rioting she sat knitting, with a loaded revolver in her overcoat pocket...
...night he fell asleep on a ledge. A shoe dropped off, was picked up by a policeman who did not bother to investigate its source. Early next morning Negro Bond hunted through offices until he found another pair of shoes which fitted him. Later he discovered a warm overcoat owned by the Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, appropriated...
...ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love was a first cousin, he never married. He became president of a bank, a leader in insurance, shipping and warehousing, the largest individual stockholder of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. But to the end of his life he never wore an overcoat, walked whenever he could save money by it, thought long before replacing a threadbare carpet in his home. When he died at the end of 1873, he left some $7,000,000, nearly his whole fortune, half to found a university and half for a hospital which would be free...