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...annual Manhattan costume ball. The invitations bade 350 guests come dressed as their "opposites." Miss Maxwell rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance Union." Composer Cole Porter went as an oldtime footballer, his wife...
...Benjamin Holt Ticknor, II200 * Arthur Whitfield Huguley 146 * Edward Sutherland Amaseen 130 * Samuel Lawrence Batchelder 127 * Stephen Pierce Duggan 126 * Phillips Finlay 121 John White Hallowell 115 Paul Allison Ketchum 86 William Henry MacHale 72 Paul Marlor Sweezy 70 James Barrett Baldwin 64 Rawn Brinkley 63 Frederick Herman Gade, II 60 Edward Kuhn Straus 58 John Adams Blanchard, II 53 Robert Livingston Scott 52 Marshall Stearns, Jr. 49 Andrew Glark Ingraham...
...members of the Permanent Class Committee were chosen in the following order: Benjamin Holt Ticknor II, of New York City, Arthur Whitfield Huguley, of Swampscott; Edward Sutherland Amazeen, of Melrose Highlands: Samuel Lawrence Batchelder, of Boston; Stephen Pierce Duggan, of New York City; and Phillips Finlay, of Redlands, California...
...users of dry snuff have dwindled and only a few are left, mostly in the South. These are fond of pointing out that Benjamin Franklin was the champion U. S. snuffer. He startled European courts by the care he used in carrying the right colored box for every occasion. In Canada, the Royal Highlanders at mess pass around a ramshorn filled with dry snuff, of which every member and guest must partake. Damp snuff is highly-ground tobacco mixed with a little salt and, later, oil of wintergreen, rose, or a similar flavor. The advantage of chewing snuff over chewing...
...angry little men had a fracas in Manhattan's great Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine last Sunday. One little man, Bishop William Thomas Manning, damned the other in his sermon. The other little man, onetime Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, was tensely listening directly below the Bishop. Said the Bishop in part: "As to his latest book [The Companionate Marriage'], I can only say here, speaking as a Bishop of the Church, that it is in my judgment one of the most filthy, insidious and cleverly written pieces of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness...