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...leave. Said he: "Good God, no! I'll just pull my houseboat over another mile or so and forget the trouble." The Hindu pianist who played an Indian version of boogie woogie at the houseboat-cabaret Bluebird had a different solution. He bought a new, heavy, imported Scotch tweed suit with heavy overcoat and tweed cap. Asked if he were not afraid of the approaching Moslem tribesmen, he giggled loudly, exclaimed: "Lord, no! I have become a Christian...
French Ambassador Henri Bonnet and smart wife Helle (who ran a Manhattan hat shop during the war) arrived by air. Mme. Bonnet posed for photographers in her stylish grey tweed, 5 in. b.t.k. Discreet statement by the Ambassador: "I have no opinion on these matters...
...lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk. Gathering up his notes and books, he tucked his hornrimmed spectacles into the pocket of his tweed jacket and picked up his mortarboard. Still talking-to the accompaniment of occasional appreciative laughs and squeals from his audience-he leaned over to return the watch he had borrowed from a student in the front row. As he ended his final sentence, he stepped off the platform...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky youngster, not quite 23 years old, paced the floor of his study in the Bucharest palace. Occasionally he stopped to finger the button which led to a concealed Dictaphone. His loose tweed jacket and baggy grey flannel trousers, his light colored eyes and curly brown hair, made him seem younger than he actually was. But he had made his first -and perhaps his last-big decision as King of Rumania. Now he was about to take the big gamble...
...Dictionary of American Biography: every biography that rated 1½ pages or more was selected in the first drawing. Then, for reasons good & sufficient to Author Bowerman-such as eminence due to sheer luck; traitors and criminals-some 210 names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker T. Washington, Eugene V. Debs, Aaron Burr, Andrew Carnegie, Brigham Young) and 27 women (Lillian Russell, Emily...