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...delightful and humorous. He tells anecdotes and reprints satirical poems of his own and other writers from Punch; and yet he is able to interlard a great deal of sound criticism. With equal case he returns to his childhood and recaptures a naive delight in the verses of the Tailor sisters, two Victorian A. A. Milnes; or describes the sophisticated pleasures of making fun of his contemporaries...
...their leases, when low-laden tankers from Trinidad, Tampico and Maracaibo could not bring the crude in fast enough, you never heard much about Sun Oil Co. If it was mentioned at the Tulsa Club, where engineers in khaki pants and tall boots fingered field maps with bankers in tailor-made clothes, people were inclined to smile. The Sun was a fine old company. But it just did not fit into oil's new tempo...
...survey found that 74 per cent of Harvard men of the upper three classes wore ready-made clothes, while only 24 per cent went to the tailor for their suits. Automobiles were personally owned by 27 per cent, while an additional 29 per cent have the use of a car. Sixty-five per cent of these men are regular smokers, only five per cent smoke cigars regularly, 42 per cent smoke pipes. The large percentage of 82 are habitual cigarette smokers. Eight per cent of all Harvard students smoke expensive cigarettes. It is revealed also that 66 per cent have...
History. Everyone rightly associated Mnnsey's with the late Frank Andrews Munsey. Everyone knows McChire's was founded by Samuel Sidney McClure, although many are not aware that he is still alive, aged 75. Who was McCall? James McCall, Scottish tailor who arrived in the U. S. in the 1860's and started a pattern business, never knew there was a magazine named for him. In 1885 his company started publishing monthly an eight-page pamphlet of fashion notes, called The Queen. James McCall died that year. In 1891 the pamphlet was renamed The Queen of Fashion...
...years, carrying his scenery, tricks, wife & three children in a roofed wagon. Mrs. Schoenberg played the harp between Lafe Schoenberg's tricks. In 1860, the Schoenbergs emigrated to the U. S. Lafe Schoenberg died in Chicago in 1919. He was 101. One of his sons, Al Schoenberg, a tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name of Al Shean, became famed with the late Ed ("Oh, Mister") Gallagher. Al Schoenberg's sister Minna was a Manhattan fur and lace worker...