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VOGUE'S BOOK OF ETIQUETTE?by the Editors of Vogue?Condé Nast ($4.00). No doubt we have improved somewhat since the days back in the fabulous forties when manuals on correct behavior advised their readers in all seriousness to "omit the annoying foreign) fashion of taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their...
...barrier, the good-natured crowd "downed umbrellas" in order that all might see the getaway. "They're off!" shouted thousands of voices, but one by one the horses returned behind the barrier; Jockey Donoghue's mount, Defiance, had "broken." The second "They're off!" proved correct. Lord Astor's St. Germans and Lord Derby's Sansovino led with Hurstwood, Bright Night and Tom Pinch. Down the spongy, muddy track squelched the horses, the pouring rain dashing into their faces. Little by little Sansovino and St. Germans drew away from the rest. When the field plodded...
...spite of such patriotism, however, on the part of M. Painleve, it was his noncommittal adversary, M. Doumergue, who raced home many necks ahead of the many intriguing dark horses, war horses and white hopes. His attitude seems to have been perfectly correct throughout, though somewhat cool and a trifle restrained. It is a model, in fact, for the perfect politician. Having extricated himself from his party caucus, he was not bound to efface himself when his opponent received the nomination. And when an appeal to his party loyalty was made, to effect his withdrawal, his reply was a master...
...plans for "safe" flying and low speed planes allow little opportunity for further pioneering in the development of the aircraft. The task of dangerous and costly, though vitally important, experimentation would seem to fall to the air departments of the army and navy. If Major Hensley's statement is correct that, "We are getting virtually no support from Congress in the way of new equipment," this duty can obviously not be performed...
...firmly believe that the national income tax should be so levied as to correct inequalities in the incidence of other taxes...