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President Wilson was taking no surreptitious advantage of Mrs. McLaughlin's absence. His unique sign, situated beside the Palmolive Building at swank Delaware Place, had been approved in advance by Chicago's Anti-Cruelty Society. The barkers for Ideal Dog Food were housed in a 26-ft.-wide shed with triangular glass front projecting from the sign's centre. To keep them comfortable there had been installed $6,000 worth of airconditioning. There were also a 30-gal. water tank, blue-lighted kennels, a drinking fountain, awnings, Venetian blinds, sleeping quarters for an attendant in the rear...
...political sea could not control their follow ers. Charles D. Hilles, boss of New York Republicanism, arrived, for the first time in years, without his delegation in his vest pocket. Fortnight ago one of Mr. Hilles' four delegates-at-large, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, brisk wife of swank Long Island's Congressman "Bob" Bacon, announced that the women vice chairmen of most of New York's Republican county committees were for Landon and that New York's nominating votes must go to him Or Else. Mr. Hilles maintained a pained silence while newshawks counted almost...
...Entente, all the Scandinavian and Balkan States, and five of the 20 Latin American republics, plus all the British Dominions, vice-regal India and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Captain Eden excused himself by saying that he had to make a political speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine, Turkish, Brazilian and Chinese Ambassadors and the Ministers of Cuba, Finland, Iraq, Nepal, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay...
...swank Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. one day last week, members of the convening Society of Automotive Engineers traipsed into a darkened room, blinked in the glare of a pair of automobile headlights, then, passing behind a clear glass windshield, observed that although the light beams illuminated the room display, they no longer glared into the observer...
...elegance of the nine undergraduate colleges' 28 squash courts, the urbanity of their comfortable common rooms, the easy-going new grace they bring to undergraduate life, it is Provost Charles Seymour, a highly civilized man who edited Colonel Edward M. House's papers, is the master of swank Berkely and looks like suave Cinemactor Frank Morgan. Even so lively an enthusiast for the College Plan as Provost Seymour admits that so far the changes have been residential rather than tutorial. But President Angell definitely believes that the Yale class of 1936 is four or five years further toward...