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...Added to sumptuous powder rooms would be "safety" clothes having "real style" because, according to Bogner, "women in pert, natty uniforms spruce up a place...
...Barnum & Bailey circus-began its longest visit in history (47 days) at Madison Square Garden last week. It should also prove one of its most enjoyable visits. Done up in style, this year's circus has wonderfully gaudy costumes, good-looking girls, emerald-green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen of Hearts swagger, slither and galumph...
Later the Kings reviewed Ibn Saud's bodyguard of Wahabis ("Puritan" Moslems), who wear their hair braided and march in sweeping, dun-colored abaat (gowns). Then the monarchs sat down to a banquet in the sumptuous Hejaz style. The great table groaned under the weight of sweetmeats and whole barbecued sheep. In high good humor, Ibn Saud told brave tales of his youth. For hours the feasting continued, while the Wahabis made the night ring with martial songs and poems flattering the royal Egyptian guest...
...years later, when Mexico resumed diplomatic relations with Russia, the Kremlin sent Constantine Oumansky as Ambassador to Mexico. Soon he was the most popular diplomat there. His sumptuous Embassy in Mexico City, with its big autographed picture of Stalin, was the most crowded social center in the Mexican capital. In no time, he had won friends for Russia all over Latin America. Now & again a suspicious voice would ask why Russia had sent such a top-drawer diplomat to Mexico City. There were rumors of Russian undercover activity. But Ambassador Oumansky's conduct was always scrupulously correct...
...wife, Hopkins had had many friends among the rich?the Whitneys, the Harrimans, the Forrestals, the Stettiniuses, the John Hertzes?moving as effortlessly in their circles as he once did among the poor of Manhattan's lower east side. Bernard Baruch's wedding present to the Hopkinses was a sumptuous dinner for 50 at Washington's Carlton Hotel? a fairly routine affair of its kind, which raised the blood pressure of anti-New Deal newspapers...