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...William Good went to Minneapolis to help dedicate a great building. On hand for the same purpose were Congressmen, foreign delegates, seven Governors, Sousa's Band. Built with the profits from countless utility promotions and designed to resemble the Washington Monument, the 32-story structure was equipped with sumptuous living quarters for its owner, whose name was displayed in great black letters on all four sides-FOSHAY. Even more remarkable than his tower was Wilbur Burton Foshay, over whose desk used to hang the motto: "Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...
...Trypheme. Not charted on any map and thus unknown to the rest of the world, this little island carries on an idyllic existence which is perhaps best represented in the person of its ruler, Emil Jannings. He has 366 wives, one for each day in the year. In sumptuous palaces and on a sizeable yacht, beloved by all his subjects, beset by no problems of state, this merry monarch lives for pleasure alone...
...Bravo Citizen D. J. Foss! . . . Down with undertakers, and their ballyhooing, cemetery lot speculation, sumptuous undertaking palaces, etc.! What do the dead care for a real mahogany casket or a metal one? Aprés moi-I don't give a damn...
...With its sumptuous trimmings, its kerosene lights and its antiquated heating, the apartment into which a Frenchman moves when the State appoints him Governor of the privately-owned Bank of France looks and smells like a miser's snuggery. Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper. Their beloved master since 1930, M. Clement Moret, the National Tightwad and, as such, a national hero, had just been kicked upstairs from Governor of the Bank of France to Honorary Governor...
...home on Park Avenue at 61st Street. Then began the parade of Brearley fathers marching their Brearley daughters to school before proceeding to business. Girls who arrived by automobile were thought pretentious. The parade stopped in 1929 when Brearley built and moved again, this time to a sumptuous ten-story structure overlooking the East River at 83rd Street...