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...which Playwright Noel Coward takes a champagne-elated heroine (Actress Mary Clare) from the Boer War through the World War and up to Depression in a series of dream and nightmare interludes, rose-tinted, bawdy, poignant, acid. His Majesty, who likes thrills, has been rumored about to knight Nerve-Tweaker Coward...
Other Coolidge pets: Do-Funny, trained troupial, tweaker of ears; Old Bill, thrush; Peter Pan, first Coolidge dog; Paul Pry, half-brother of President Harding's famed Laddie Boy; Rob Roy, Wisconsin sheepherding collie who disliked the White House elevator, who stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President...
...Chicago Tribune, not squeamish, carried an advertising sketch of a "tweaker." Superficially this instrument resembles a pair of scissors between the points and handles of which four flexible strands are strung and intertwined in curious fashion...
...owner of a tweaker proceeds to tweak by bringing the strands into close proximity with a human hair which is caught and held by squeezing the handles of the tweaker. Then, according to the Tweaker Company: With a gentle motion it rolls hair out?root and all. . . . Now razors, chemicals and painful wax go the way of all obsolete things...
Such were enticing phrases used, last week, by the Tweaker Manufacturing Co. of Chicago to advertise a new product selling...