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...bitter French peasant in a Hawaiian grass skirt was driving a span of oxen at Brissac near Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...
...women's doubles teams seldom live up to their potentialities and there was small chance of a U. S. pair beating Betty Nuthall and Freda James, even though Mrs. Moody felt sufficiently re covered from her crick to put on her tennis skirt intending to play in case the doubles turned out to be the deciding match. It turned out not to be. With the score 5-7, 6-2, 3-5 against her in her match with Peggy Scriven, Helen Jacobs let the English girl get as far as 30-all. Then, playing pat-ball tennis to match...
Highlight of the exhibition was a series taken in Manhattan burlesque theatres. Lohse had surreptitiously snapped queens of the famed "strip" routine in the split-second of removing their last skirt and flouncing into the wings. He had caught the slovenly posturing of the chorus on the runway. Other series showed the chorus of Take a Chance (TIME, Dec. 12) swirling their skirts, Jazz Singer Ethel Merman in consecutive poses of singing "Rise and Shine," colored Ethel Waters singing ''Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan...
...guard threatened to brain an assistant if he tried to take a snapshot. Rivera's heavy scaffolding was replaced by a movable scaffold. Rivera draped tracing paper over the outside railing, screening the platform from the guards, and a woman assistant took a camera from under her skirt to photograph, close up, part of the fresco. The scaffold was moved, the operation repeated until Rivera had photographs of the whole fresco. He was scarcely surprised that the Rockefellers objected to his work when they saw it as living art and realized what it meant...
London's Morning Post comments on the large number of new words of "America's queer coinage (which so often proves ancient currency disinterred)." E. g.- "Racket-a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action. 1812." "Skirt-A woman. Now vulgar slang, 1560.'' Unlike Sam Johnson, who occasionally winked (as when he defined "lexicographer" as "a harmless drudge") and who occasionally nodded into Latinic somnolence ("Network-anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"), editors of the S. O. E. D. are always serious but try hard...