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...effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock, brandishing a torch labeled "Sectarianism" and herself labeled "Mrs. Willebrandt...
...divided into three episodes, each with a new background, a new partner. The first episode has for its background a smart summer town in Maine and for Claire's partner a youth whose adolescent romanticism is as vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli, in a blue smock, stood in "Magic City"-a metropolis erected in gold and crimson papier-mache in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Caroling snatches of famous arias to attract the pennies of the crowd, he sold leather novelties for charity...
...Benkard & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers entering the offices of the firm one morning last week, stared in amazement at a clerk who was putting up the opening prices, for this individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding...
...White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli." "Cal he was, Cal he is." "Fate pointed the path and the country lost a Chief-Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread...