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...height, Liberty Leaguer Alfred Emanuel Smith became a feted guest comparable to John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, tenth Duke of Maryborough. Smith hosts included U. S. Steelman Myron Charles Taylor, Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Sportsman Joseph Early Widener. At a fair held by Palm Beach's swank Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, a Presidential straw vote showed: Smith 705, Landon 390, Roosevelt...
Responsible for the details of the tombstone show was grey-haired, convivial Designer Ernest Leland of Manhattan's swank Presbrey-Leland Studios. He is a self-taught draughtsman, whose forebears for generations have been tombstone-makers. Salesmen know that he has embellished more graves than any other single individual in the industry. From his drawing board came one of the most expensive tombs ever erected in the U. S., the $300,000 William Rockefeller Mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. He is responsible for the Back-to-the-Epitaph movement now stirring the industry...
...Swank young Alfred Duff Cooper, new British Secretary of State for War, lately remarked: "Edith Cavell was a courageous woman whom the Germans were entitled to execute...
Everywhere remarked with approval in London last week was the new earnestness and gravity which have set themselves upon the features of Edward VIII since he became King. Instead of the swank Rolls-Royce which often used to carry him as Prince of Wales, His Majesty has taken to riding in the stately maroon Daimler of His late Majesty, enormous, high and with a performance anything but snappy...
...conducted entirely through privately circulated catalogs. About six feet tall, bald and pink-cheeked, Tom Clarke was a man of bound less energy, though a childhood attack of diphtheria left him with a lame foot which he dragged all his life. He was one of the founders of the swank Brook Club, also served as Shepherd of the plebeian Lambs. For years he never missed a first night on Broadway, yet was always at work at 8:15 o'clock the following morning, writing all his business letters in longhand. And when he bought pieces of art, he paid...