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...business suit-but that is what he wore. Also he is the first President who left the bridge after 20 minutes of the review and, retiring to the stern of his boat, there had his picture taken and reclined for the rest of the two hours on a couch from which he could neither see nor be seen by the battleships as they passed the Mayflower. . . . Naval circles in Washington are humming today-and not in gratification...
...dropped on a couch that stood near...
...world's armor of convention the vulnerable joints through which to prick with tiny irritating shafts and barbs have always been a persecuted brotherhood. When jesters were really in fashion, the indignities were such uncomfortably tangible things as straw-beds, and a monkey or two to share the couch. In latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected to the dissecting, knife analysis of the statistician...
...conquerors are currently honored, termed "World's Champion," richly rewarded. The vanquished, less honored, also receive goodly purses. Players scatter back to native farm, garage and couch; magnates balance their books; another major league season has passed into history...
...least there seems to be some value in a demonstration in which they exhibited: a three-quarter bed which constricts itself into a slender couch, two chiffoniers which measure eight inches and twenty inches in width, a reading table for the bed with top the size of a dinner plate, chairs no more rugged than most people's bridge tables, vases and lamps which economize themselves as they go skyward as rapidly as Gothic spires...