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...Some of them cost him as much as $35,000 and years of pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre of Smyrna. Hungary, Thrace, Rhodes, Asia Minor, Persia, Bagdad, Damascus-all are represented...
...presence of her three-year-old great-grandchild. In Manhattan, Saks & Co. (clothiers) alleged in an advertisement that "the best known men in Wall Street [i.e., J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto H. Kahn, Dwight W. Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour L. Cromwell, etc.] are to be seen wearing our sack coats and straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington, D. C., the Department of Commerce (whose function it is to advertise foreign trade openings for American business men) received a request from Sweden...
...blue sack suit and primrose waistcoat...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...
Harvard Chapter.--c., Friendly, Fanning; p., Wyman, Pollak; s.s., Short; c.f., Dolphin; 1b., Sack; 2b., Newhall; l.f., Black; r.f., Doolittle; c.f., Furber. Total...