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...station platform King Carol & Hostess Elisabeth made a handsome couple. "Oh there's Auntie Marie!" shouted Crown Prince Mihai as the Jugoslav royal train chuffed in. Out bounced plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, embraced her brother Carol. Out stepped Jugoslavia's dentist-like King Alexander dressed as a Rumanian commander of artillery. Carol, dressed as a Jugoslav infantry officer, kissed Alexander while a Rumanian brass band blared the amazing three-ply national anthem of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes, officially called "Jugoslavia...
Another Whitney formally took to horse racing when plump Joan Whitney Payson registered her colors (pink-&-black) with the American Jockey Club. Other Whitney stable owners: her mother, Mrs. Payne Whitney (pink-&-black); her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney (fuchsia-&-purple); her cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney (blue-&-brown) with whom Mrs. Payson's large, handsome husband Charles rowed for Yale...
...capacity the gay young man saw and met Lenin for the first time and the following quotation is his vivid impression of the Red leader: "There was nothing in his personal appearance to suggest even faintly a resemblance to the super-man. Short of stature, rather plump, with a short, thick neck, broad shoulders, round, red face, high intellectual forehead, nose slightly turned up, brownish moustache, and short, stubby beard, he looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew Lenin better, he was impressed by the man's will...
...broadcast by "Ozzie" Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...
There is a foreword by plump Dr. William Schroeder Jr., chairman of the sanitary commission and sponsor of D S. The engineer in charge of sewage disposal writes learnedly of progress on the unfinished new disposal plant. There is a detailed resume of the work of removing last December's snow, which cost the City "approximately $1,367,251.55." Auditor Harry R. Langdon quotes excerpts from musty official records of the appointment of a public scavenger of 1701 at $40 a year. Two pages are devoted to the department's Holy Name Society, two more to routine department...