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...expatriates, greeted the first corps of U. S. newshawks she had seen in 31 years. Author Stein, hearty, hefty, dressed in a coarse, mannish suit and thick woolen stockings, was sailing up New York Harbor to begin a lecture tour. Over her close-cropped grey hair was pulled a tweed deer-stalker's cap. To the disappointment of newshawks, she gave an intelligible interview: "I do talk as I write but you can hear better than you can see. You are accustomed to see with your eyes differently to the way you hear with your ears, and perhaps that...
...expensively gowned and highly perfumed audience crowded the Hotel Stevens ballroom to watch the annual St. Luke's Fashion Show. One hundred and eight young women, wives and daughters of Chicago's socially great, acted as models. The audience clapped appreciatively as Miss Josephine Templeton, in tweed, drove a golf ball into the gallery. Applause thundered forth as Mrs. Solomon B. Smith appeared in Mrs. J. Ogden Armour's own wedding gown...
Each plate in the set, which was conceived after the Lincoln volume was contemplated, is a print made from the original negative and pasted in. Some of the figures in the rest of the set include: Henry Clay, Queen Victoria, "Boss" Tweed, John Jacob Astor, Emperor Maximilian of Maxico, and Oscar Wilde...
...Singer, a small earnest man who flutters and squirms as he talks, still wears his Harvard disguise: flannels, grimy white shoes, nipped-in tweed jacket, and an approximation of the "whiffle hair-cut". He carries a text-book and loose-leaf notebook...
...Roosevelt, 79-year-old mother of the President, sailed from New York for a European holiday aboard the German liner Europa. Last week it was the French liner Ile de France that brought her back to the U. S. With her she brought from Aberdeenshire four yards of Scotch tweed as a present for her son to have a suit made from. Said she: "The cloth was very reasonable. I don't think it cost as much as £5. I do hope my son will have it made up, although Washington is hardly the place to wear such cloth...