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...rooms. ... Do you consider it a fair price?" "I pay what I am asked to pay," boomed Premier Bennett. "Does a guest usually pay more than he is asked to pay? . . . Do you desire to know what I pay for my boots and the bills I pay my tailor...
...places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...
...latest abstractions. Depression caused one novelty in this year's show. Artists loudly announced that this year they would barter their pictures for food, rent, clothing, or what had you. Haberdashers and dentists were first to strike bargains. On the opening night Artist Baylinson closed with Tailor S. Hindleman-a drawing for a spring suit. Dentist Joseph R. Horn scoured the gallery, tentatively selected 30 pictures, waited for toothaches to develop...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born at Frankfort-On-Main in 1749, the son of a rich lawyer and the grandson of a tailor turned innkeeper. Educated in the arts, sciences and law, Goethe's poetical and practical career took imposing form in 1775, when, aged 26, he settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which...
During the War everybody has his troubles, great & small, except Mr. Winburg the tailor, who makes a fortune selling shoddy raincoats. It is his daughter Bella, in whose bath salts are all the perfumes of Arabia, who gives the second, concluding Magnolia Street party, which brings Jews and gentiles together again. By this time, in spite of Author Golding's sincere and humane labors, the reader is likely to be wishing both Jews and gentiles either dead or living without such tedious detail...