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...chatter advertisements were simple: Marchioness Boneless Step-in Combination $9.24 or Afore Splendid Values in Macy's Great Annual Towel Sale. Essentially the difference was that the chatter advertisements contained a consciously attained feminine informality...
...gang of coolies. Promptly a group of Japanese naval officers called on the editor in his office in the International Settlement, gave him 24 hours to print an apology "on pain of adopting suitable measures." The monks were avenged by a lone Japanese who attacked a Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear Admiral Koichi Shiosawa, commander of the Japanese...
...water, shot and allowed to bleed to death. His corpse was undressed and wrapped in bed sheets from which all laundry marks had been clipped. To support their theory the police announced that they had found Kahahawai's brown cap in the Massie home, a bloody towel in a closet, an unhinged door,.a bathroom freshly mopped, a bed stripped of sheets and a coil of new white rope such as was around the body. On Sailor Jones was found a .32-calibre revolver clip like the one used in the killing, with one cartridge missing...
...dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...
First comes a shot of Fairbanks running around a boat deck; then one of Fairbanks dressed in a bath-towel, doing his exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal...