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...Back in 1924", one Keeper of the Sock declared, "Harvard men were easily distinguishable by their dress, but now you cannot tell a student from a down-and-out gentleman of the side-door Pullmans. Even the best among them will pay $50 for a suit and $10 for a hat, only to turn around and spoil it all with a $50 cravat and $3 shoes. The majority, it seems to me, don't bother with the expensive clothes, but buy the cheap ones, and second hand at that!" This latter assertion was authentically confirmed...
...figure, a sort of Norman Coolidge, invincibly bourgeois. As Finance Minister he outlasted Premier Poincaré, carried on under Premier Briand, then under Premier Tardieu. When the latter fell (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930) Papa Chéron was found to have left in Jean Frenchman's long, woolen sock a treasury surplus of 19 billion francs...
Reaching far underneath a bed for a stray sock tossed there by its owner, Mrs. E. Adelbert Jacobson, a maid in one of the Houses, ventured to speak a piece of her mind in an exclusive CRIMSON interview yesterday morning. "Now take this here sock," Mrs. Jacobson commented, "thrown way under here out of my reach, what do those boys think I am a lost and found department. Why, the work I have to do to keep these rooms in order! My lands, you'd think a cyclone had hit it every morning. Pajama tops here, and the bottoms...
...taken off from Preakness, homeward bound to Philadelphia. The mist enveloped them. It was impossible to go on, too late to turn back. They would make for the field at Paterson nearby. Cautiously Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship into a glide, and-Crash! . . . The fuselage of the Vales' plane, with its two occupants uninjured was wedged tight...
...wreckage is cleared, as the broken banks' depositors happily get back much of their $42,000,000, Manufacturers' branch managers will be in fine position to persuade them to deposit again, safely this time, instead of locking up money in office vaults or the old family sock...