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Last week Rear Admiral Bristol said, reassuringly, at Constantinople, as he took the Simplon Orient Express for Paris: "Turkey has now become a robust nation with no fear of her most promising future...
...associates, spend $60,000,000 yearly for cosmetics-perfumes, toilet waters, cold creams and talcums. A favorite talcum has been one that imitates a coat of tan. A new perfume intended for men is golden brown and has a bouquet reminiscent of Scotch whiskey. In the face of robust custom, the problem of advertising cosmetics to men is no less difficult than the problem of cigaret-makers advertising to women smokers...
Twenty-one years ago a robust Sergeant in Squadron A, New York City National Guard, was riding through Rock Creek Park, Washington, D. C. Suddenly he heard the familiar voice of Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting...
...tabloid newspaper, the New York pornoGraphic, full, front page pictures of Rudolph Valentino's "ghost" in pajamas. He publishes composite faked pictures of old lechers, young miscegenators, alleged murderers, undressed girls. But Publisher Macfadden rises in dudgeon when similar liberties are taken with his own, more robust physique...
...Alexander Stirling Calder, Philadelphia born, has created his model pink with Dutch health. Her full face and bosom are redolent of Holland tulips. In her arm she holds a fat baby and in her other she grips a rifle. She is robust but beautiful...