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...Capitol office, reads the Congressional Record for him, has been on the House payroll for $208.33 per month as his secretary. On Saturdays they answer the accumulated mail of the week, go calling on Sundays. Politician Rainey- With his shock of white hair, his fine head, his ruddy complexion, his Windsor tie, his heavy crooked pipe Representative Rainey might well be taken for a great British statesman. Yet in political mind and manner he is bound firmly to the U. S. soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley...
...work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will take me some years to complete. ... In short, I believe young people when outdoors should see something besides advertisements to smoke certain brands of cigarets and to use certain soaps to return that schoolgirl complexion...
...Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...Complexion: clear, ruddy...
Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...