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...field between the house and the road, the wheat had come up and been harvested. Across the way corn stood four feet high. The inland meadows were dotted with piles of new hay. The cows looked fatter and sleeker than ever. These good sights came under the critical eye of Squire Franklin D. Roosevelt last week when he returned to his native Krum Elbow for the first time since that dark February day he left for Washington to assume the Presidency. "Fine! Perfectly fine," he said half to himself as he drove up & down the dirt roads and appraised...
...trains. 4) Evening bodices are slimmer, with decolletage lower behind, higher in front. 5) Trig jackets-many reversible-are especially smart for city and sports. 6) Summer fabrics, very simple for day wear, with a startling revival of bright ginghams and even calicos. 7) Hats are even smaller and sleeker, many brimless and exposing the forehead. 8) Colors, brighter, with contrasting red and black in the ascendant, plus many new shades: pewter, menthe, lucifer, Capudne, Lelong blue and green. . . . 9) Fads red hair, tennis trousers for women, pajamas at luncheon.* naughtily named knee length nightskirts: "Dream of Me," "Alarm Clock...
...seagull or two, poised over the ridged seas that beleaguer Scotland, were puzzled last week by a pair of inexplicable water-fowl-larger, whiter, sleeker than they-which never rose into the air, but skirted the wavetops, their wings petitioning the wind. Through a calm off Bogany Land, round a buoy at Kerry Croy, on the tumbled reach to Blackhouse, one of these birds was always in front of the other. That one was the Lanai, U. S. six-metre boat, sailed by Sherman Hoyt, famed Long Island yachtsman...