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...time is during some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...
Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...
...eschewed the eccentricities which were once almost obligatory to fame. There have clustered about him no such legends as those relating to Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland or bushy-lipped Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department, who sometimes goes bicycling in Edwardian shepherd's-plaid knickerbockers. Professor Murdock, son of Boston Banker Harold Murdock, is pleasant, humorless, sometimes a bit too easy to convince. His campus nickname: "Cotton-Top." It is told how a student of his named Sherwood, on the day of an examination, discovered that a lady of the same name (but no relation...
Most startling 1930 innovations are the Cord and Ruxton front drive cars which stand barely five feet high. Some models of the Willys-Knight are painted partly to resemble Scotch plaid; radiator caps are lower, some being merely dummies. One dummy cap is fashioned like a gunsight, perhaps to perfect the driver's aim. Some cars (Franklin, Packard, Graham) have abandoned ventilating slits in the hood and substituted small doors. The Pierce-Arrow, tenaciously traditional, retains its headlights on the fenders...
...Looking paunchy, with glints of grey in his hair, Jones wore a white sweater, grey knickers, grey socks, black & white shoes. . . . His huge bag is made of leather. Attached to it was a blue plaid umbrella. The bag contained three woods (driver, spoon, brassie) and nine rusty irons. A tenth iron, shiny and new, was the mashie-niblick with which he pitched his 293rd stroke...