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...Lady Astor arrived in the House clad in a blue Peter Pan frock, with a white organdie collar, white cuffs and straw mushroom...
Numerous Authors They Assemble at a Cinema Congress−and Talk At the International Congress of Motion Picture Arts (in Manhattan) one saw numerous authors, some serious, some gay. Here was Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, a serious stately lady, clad in gray and black. I was tempted to ask her where she obtained her information on Yale displayed in The Courage of the Commonplace; but didn't quite dare. W. B. Maxwell, whose The Day's Journey is a really fine recent English novel, was the British delegate. He is tall, dignified, with a much lined face that...
...moment of the play?by Maurice Hewlett's Quatrocentisteria, out of a legend of Botticelli?is when the beautiful Simonetta, offering to pose for the painter, comes to his studio, clad only in a cloak. Flinging the cloak from her she reveals herself to him, clothed only in a high-backed chair. Forgetting his love for her in his artistic enthusiasm for her beauty, Botticelli leaps to the canvas and starts violently sketching. It appears, however, that as a matter of fact Simonetta is not concerned so much with passing her beauty on to posterity. Her wants are far more...
...varsity letter to some intrinsic quality rather than to the strenuous efforts of generations of athletes. Their fatuous grinding away for "recognition" has for its goal an impossible flaunting of decorations, while the "big" man is invariably the least ostentatious. But the small pompous individual lusts to be clad in titles, honors, and ceremonies, and his narrowness prevents his seeing that "Art for art's sake" is the only formula for achievement...
...steersman and oarsmen, complete in their long baggy breeches, were clad in white with the exception of a black waistcoat. At the rear of the resplendent boat the Caliph flew for the first time his personal standard, a green flag with a white star and crescent on a scarlet center, from which spread a number of white rays...