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Diplomatic Paris couturiers divided the 1934 title of Best Dressed Woman in the World among 20 sleek ladies, admitted that Manhattan's Mrs. Harrison Williams, winner of last year's title, had again topped many a private list. Other U. S. winners: Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. divorced wife of California's Senator McAdoo; Mrs. Frank Jay Gould ; Actresses Tallulah Bankhead & Ina Claire...
...Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International...
...After two days in jail Harry Strauss appeared in Brooklyn Homicide Court sleek, sneering, nattily dressed as ever. For the eighteenth time he went free, for lack of evidence...
...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...
...wife fairly stripped her pet poodle for hairs to give to admirers who believed they came from the great composer's head. When Johann Strauss III left Vienna, Viennese prophesied that he would return without the loss of a single one of his sleek grey locks...