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Across St. Louis's twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony...
...description . . . that I have met H. C. Ide . . . found him about as white a Land Commissioner as I require ... do hereby transfer to the said Annie L. Ide . . . my birthday ... to have, to hold, exercise and enjoy the same in the customary manner, by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats, and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses, according to the manner of our ancestors. . . . And in the case the said Annie L. Ide shall neglect [to celebrate it] I hereby revoke the donation and transfer my rights in the said birthday to the President...
...Cicero gambling houses ("gold-belching pits of evil" to eloquent Michael Straus of the New York Evening Post) and hearing accounts of lavish personal and household expenditures in Florida (TIME, Oct. 19) the judge, the jury and the reporters had been treated to a detailed description of the rich raiment in which Gangster Capone clothed himself. Eleven rustic jurors and one from the city had listened, gaping, to witnesses who told about the $135 suits he bought by the half-dozen, the $27.50 shirts ordered by the dozen, the $20 hats & shoes, $150 overcoats, the 30 diamond belt buckles...
...Philadelphia with stage and choristers draped in black. Philadelphians take conductors' orders with remarkable grace. Most of them did as little Mr. Gabrilo-witsch asked. But one Ellen Winsor of Haverford objected, said that Gabrilo- witsch was out-churching the churches, that rather than waste time considering their raiment people would do better to make a study of the score...
Usually she chooses more celestial raiment: flowing white robes with trailing sleeves, suggestive of angel's wings. Thus decked out, with outspread arms, rolling eyes and a wide, sweet smile she may again have occasion to shout: "They thought that with me out of the way Angelus Temple would collapse, and it didn't, and it's going bigger than ever before. The Four-Square Gospel carries en! Hallelujah...