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...done last week by one Henry Beckett of the New York Evening Post, who hashed up half-truths thus: "In Paris M. Poiret inhabits a studio with leopard skins on the floors, frescoes on the walls and stone figures of nude women on pedestals. He gained note as a builder of styles for fat women, and he learned about women-fat women -from umbrellas. He used to be an apprentice to an umbrella manufacturer, and he studied the lines and curves and ribs. He also turned around to look at women on the boulevards. In this he differed...
Accordingly, the new Lutz boat has been shipped to Ithaca in addition to the first and second University Pocock, the red cedar shell recently presented to the University as a present by R. F. Herrick '90, and made by Pocock, the famous boat builder who has supplied shells for the victorious Washington State eights for a number of years past. If Lake Cayuga is smooth tomorrow at the time of the Cornell race, the University may row the new Lutz boat, but if the water is at all rough the crew will row the shell it is used...
...crew shell was received yesterday by the University as a present from R. F. Herrick '90. It was made by Pocock the famous boat builder who has supplied shells for the victorious Washington State eights for a number of years past...
...headquarters, the Mayor-elect regaled reporters and press agents: he would establish an America First Association in every state in the Union; he would "show King George V where to get off"; he would be "Big Bill the Builder"; he would run the gangsters out of Chicago and let them go to St. Louis, Detroit, New York; he would "make the streets safe so that women and children can go to the movies at night"; he would not let the police go "sniffing around for home brew"; he might go after the presidency...
...HEIRS OF MRS. HILL LOSE," heading a small item, brought echoes of mighty days and mighty men. Mrs. Mary T. Hill was the widow of James Jerome Hill, the "Empire Builder." He thrust railway lines to the Pacific, made millions in the process. The heirs of his widow have paid over $3,000,000 in inheritance taxes to the U. S. government; last week they lost their suit to recover...