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...ground floor are a copy of the London shop. Walls and counters are of pale waxed pine, lined with long rows of bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening was a tremendous woodcock pie around whose crest were the skulls of 20 woodcocks, a replica of the pie which every year the Irish Free State sends to the King of England. Near the lift...
...citizen's "dull, sullen persistence in press," coarse ridiculed usage," "that flayed comfortless America's custom, so "licentious very prevalent in [American] country towns of married persons living in hotels, having no fire side of their own." Of a party of Pennsylvania legislators who came to greet him, Dickens observed "Pretty nearly every man spat upon the carpet, as usual; and one blew his nose with his fingers-also on the carpet, which was a very neat...
...epithet of "tax-eater" by his expensive road building program. President Hoover picked him for the Cabinet chiefly because he had once been a "Lowden man" but had got a divorce from the equalization fee. Mockingly Secretary Hyde's archfoe, onetime Democratic Senator James Reed, used to greet him: "Howdy, Arty. As one dirt farmer to another, how's crops?" The same spiteful Reed on the stump referred to him as "a steam whistle on a fertilizer factory." Two years in the Cabinet, Secretary Hyde helped to pick the Federal Farm Board to rid Florida of the Mediterranean...
...benign Herbert James Hagerman, 59, onetime (1906-1907) Governor of New Mexico Territory, now special Interior Department Commissioner to handle the business of 21 tribes. Constantly his little official car is speeding over the roads to local powwows or religious dances, where the guttural excitement of the drums will greet him several miles away...
...Thomas spoke at the Old south Forum yesterday afternoon. In order to afford members of the house an opportunity of meeting Thomas. Professor Coolidge has arranged for him to be present in the students' common room from 7.20 o'clock until 8 o'clock, at which time he will greet any students desirous of making his acquaintance...