Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
W.E.H. Boardman, Yale '27: "The red tape in the H.A.A. office gripes me beyond words...
Charles Driggs 2nd, Yale '27: "The degree to which Harvard is over-organized and tied up in red tape is amusing beyond words, to say the least. The Bursar's office, for example, at Yale, is operated by two men and no more than three stenographers, but the size of the same office in Lehman Hall would make it seem as though the Bursar and his army of assistants at Harvard were running the United States. As for red tape, a fellow can hardly get across the street without showing his Bursar's card...
Commenting on this statement, Strawn said, "There are a few lawyers still at the Bar who are wont to engage in the laborious and meticulous job of winding red tape. This type of lawyer is rapidly disappearing, for the obvious reason that that kind of exercise is not compensating, remunerative, or even interesting...
...sagebrush plains-the Second Cavalry Brigade (Fort Bliss) playing "Brown" army to the "White" army of the First Cavalry Brigade (Fort Clark) and First Cavalry Regiment (Marfa, Tex.). Tanks, cannon, airplanes, Red Cross ambulances and every appurtenance of real war, right down to hot weather, secrecy and red tape, accompanied the show...