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...shops of Paris and New York are sensationally different. In America surroundings are designed to soothe and glide and lull you into easy buying. Every size, every shade, every age catered for-but God help you if you should want your own ideas carried out. Here a true creation must be born with labour and pains ... to secure an impudent little lid either from the big popular store or the "Grande Modiste" needs a desperate tussle in a tropically-heated battle-room, heavy with a smell of stale scent and hot hard work . . . screaming like a jay amongst jays . . . still...
...Kansas City, lunch and politicians, then waving to crowds at Kansas stops all the way to the cool green shade of Emporia (William Allen White was in New York City), and a banquet on baked ham in a stuffy room with scores of postmasters and their ladies. For the tenth time he heard singers roar God Bless America. As he got on the train, said Big Jim: "Thank God we're getting out of the fried-chicken belt." Next morning Fort Worth and Dallas, where a posse of Garnerites hauled him off to breakfast: Cactus Valley grapefruit, Red River...
...want to thank you for printing that article. I have gained a lot of unseen friends, been ribbed to death, my pretty little wife isn't quite sure whether she wants to be seen with me in Public Places, and strangers write me that I am only one shade handsomer than that dude Angel the wrestler, but I have a hound dog that sure still thinks that I am kind of nice. So I don't care. And I'm not worried. And I am going to keep right on digging wells and probably getting spanked...
...inspired to originate the tassel dance by the tassel of a window shade that I was watching one day. I resolved to put life into that stagnant thing," she says, and she does...
Undoubtedly, that's a tremendous asset to any university president who's after benefactors. If they can't see beyond the warm, heathery shade of your tweeds, they won't be able to worry much about what's going to happen to their money. It's a great improvement over the old days, and we'll be expecting "Fair Harvard" on the Hit Parade pretty soon...