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...dropped sharply on the Exchange on rumors that it too was involved, but the company announced it had less than $100,000 in the bank. The City of New York sought in vain to release a $1,500,000 deposit. Another big depositor was Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers. The bank has around 400,000 depositors, 23,000 shareholders. Last week the State was busy investigating reports that the bank had sold stock to depositors at $198 a share, promised repurchase in the event of a decline, an illegal banking...
...Gibson Girl herself. Occasionally in the drawings which made Life the most popular humorous weekly in the country and brought Artist Gibson enough money to buy the magazine from its former owners, the Gibson Girl would exhibit fear of mice, embarrassment at the shortness of her bathing skirt, or a tendency to buy extravagant dresses. But for the most part the Gibson Girl remained the goddess of a sentimental generation, admirable always. It was through the strange minor characters that surrounded her that Artist Gibson was "exceedingly facetious." The Gibson Girl had a formidable mother who was forever trying...
...Louis, Edward Fila went to a fancy dress party, dressed in raffia skirt as a hulamaiden. In striking a match, he set fire to his skirt, was badly burned...
Color-of-the-season in U. S. women's fashions is no longer determined by a universal change of taste, nor even by the Paris designers who set skirt lengths, waist heights. Color-of-the-season is now decided by the U. S. manufacturers of silks, cotton-goods, shoes, hats, pocketbooks. These gentlemen simply "get together" and agree that one season's cerise shall be supplanted by green, purple or "Mrs. Harding blue." They agree that a certain proportion, say 65%!, of each gentleman's production shall be in the agreed new color. That saves money in dye-buying...
...plugging mostly languorous waltzes and slow exotic tango-tunes. Thus no one was surprised when President Sheehy manifestoed: "It is a return of grace and dignity to the ballroom that is on its way. . . . The popularity of soft, crooning melodies and the return to favor of the long skirt have paved the way for the waltz. Furthermore, the middle-aged and elderly are tired of being ignored as in the passing era of jerky jazz dancing and are insisting upon steps that do not try to make a jumping jack of the broker and high kicking...