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...Added plump Mrs. Elizabeth ("Bess") Farley, whose desire for money is generally believed to be the prime reason for her husband's announced intention of leaving the Cabinet: "And tell him the Parleys aren't Roosevelts...
...earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped Archbishop of York, plump William Temple, had little to do but weave about among the regalia. In 1902 at the Coronation of Edward VII, his father was Archbishop of Canterbury. Vividly last week he must have recalled that at that lengthy service Archbishop Temple's hands trembled so that he nearly dropped...
...West 44th Street to be voted en. One was Lawyer Susan Brandeis (Mrs. Jacob H. Gilbert), whose pet dislike is to be referred to as the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis because she does not want to trade on her father's fame. Plump, fortyish. the mother of two boys and a girl, Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the New York State Board of Regents (educational overseers) and maintains a Manhattan law practice with her husband...
...blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness is the result of a skull slash by a deep-sea monster, but makes no effort to analyze why the captain swims so awkwardly or why "a man of steel" should keep himself so plump. Killers of the Sea contains some really good shots of a white man and a Negro in a dory being towed and finally upset by a huge blackfish which they have harpooned...
Next day, during a recess in the hearing before the great Green Case was adjourned for two weeks, two lawyers stood chatting in a smoke-filled anteroom with plump Surrogate Owen. Subject of the conversation was Mrs. Wilks's "day in court." Said the Surrogate: "The thing I was worried about was: If I cited her for contempt of court how would I get her up to Port Henry for a hearing? I was afraid I might have to take her my self...