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...sunparty on one of the societies' discreetly enclosed lawns, Les Grecs appear in classic Greek draperies of sheerest gauze. Les Purs appear in the scantiest of Chitons (shirts), barely conforming to the French law against absolute nudity
...sidewalk. They came by motor and trolley from miles around, inflamed with the lust to gape. They came to see the famed females of the movies in what is not inaccurately described on nights like this as the flesh. Squired by famed movie males these females dress in their sheerest best to attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood opening only a handful of the really great attend. The rest cannot be bothered with the ghastly splendor of the ceremonies. But last week one and all turned out. They came in answer to the loudest...
...into the nation's news last week, because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
...Packard, of the largest single bequest since its initial gifts and endowment (two millions and 60 acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard " was sheerest coincidence but not so the careers behind them. Asa Packer was successively carpenter's apprentice, canal-boat owner, railroad operator, financier and philanthropist. James Ward Packard, the young graduate of the school Asa Packer founded, was successively an employe of an electric company; organizer of his own electric company...
Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, superintended last week the packing of a small week-end bag. Into it went two nightgowns and three sets of undergarments, all of sheerest silk. Then a sheer afternoon gown. Finally a set of especially made featherweight aluminum toilet articles...