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...Slim, wasp-waisted, high-strung President Chiang Kai-shek of China seemed to crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
Flounced, wasp-waisted, tight-corseted women in the early '70s were much pleased to learn that one James McCall, a Scotsman, was making dress patterns. Civil War still a vivid memory, economy was a popular word and patterns were economical. Scotsman McCall knew how to make them, for he had once been a tailor. Soon the wife of his secretary, writing under the name of May Manton, started The Queen, eight-page fashion sheet. Along with McCall patterns, The Queen prospered in a small way. After Scotsman McCall's death in 1885 May Manton's husband, George...
...Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair should suddenly appear as a vegetable-eating, hairy-chested Nudist. An acknowledged leader of Parisian society, always (heretofore) impeccably dressed, great-grandson of Chevalier de Groiseillez? who was a noble governor of Flanders, Andre de Fouquieres shares with silk- stocked Berry Wall and wasp-waisted Marquis Boni de Castellane the title of Last of the Dandies...
Shakespeare's contemporaries carried on their persons, usually in rings, certain "stones" cut from the heads of big, old toads. Toad-stones "touching any part envenomed by the bite of a rat, wasp, spider or other venomous beast, ceases the pain and swelling thereof." This hermetic treatment seems to have had some value...
...world air record made last week: Altitude for seaplane-Lieut. Apollo Soucek (U. S. N.), in a wasp-powered Wright Apache, 38,560 ft., at Washington; surpassing Lieut. C. C. Champion...