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...insists on informality at any cost. "If I am asked to the White House," he says, "or to any other state occasion. I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm." It is thought that the shoes, of a rich ochre tint and big enough to allow free play to legislative toes, will save him the necessity of going further, but he magnanimously concedes: "If my constituents wish me to do so, I shall go to the extreme of donning overalls." It will doubtless be interesting to observe the effect...
...shoes in question are of a breadth allowing free play to the legislative toes, and are a rich ochre in tint...
...materials which will be used in the construction of the building are a white local stone with a creamy tint and red brick. The roof will be of blue slate with copper flashings and it will have three rows of small dormers, giving a pleasing national touch. The belfry tower, which will contain special chimes and the front portal will have many gilded details characteristic of Brabant...
...Wehle is not effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint of yellow green." H. K. Moderwell's "By Night" has a vigor that makes one wish for more. "The Last Edition," by Wm. C. Green is an admirably told incident of the conflict between principle and financial need, principle winning less blatantly than is usual. "College Kodaks" are true but unpleasant...
...made. Mr. J. L. Smith of Boston supervised yesterday afternoon the painting and decorating of the palace. The main walls of the central por- tico will be colored and surmounted by ornamental borders in conventional Greek design. The rest of the structure will be stained a yellowish brown tint to indicate the wear of time...