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...southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried his sapper's axe. The typical Napoleonic uniform included high stiff headgear, tight white trousers or very baggy ones, crossed bandoliers. Charles Sandré made one of each to the number of 900, including every rank in every regiment in Napoleon's armies...
...Arnold Scheifer's restaurant in New York, George Frei is the waiter in the alpaca jacket who serves the veal stew, the fried potatoes and the draught beer. He served them last week with a broad and radiant grin. For years he saved all his tips so that his boy need never learn to balance a tray or memorize an order. George Frei Jr. wanted to be an architect. George Sr. sent him to the Harlem Vocational School, then to art classes in Cooper Union, then, while he worked as a draughtsman, to New York University. Last week...
...that sodium attacks ordinary glass and that the intense heat of the light destroys the bulb. These flaws have been corrected by the development of a special glass for the bulb. Heat developed in the lamp and necessary for its operation is maintained by an evacuated double-walled glass jacket (like a thermos bottle) placed around the bulb...
...eccentric behavior is partially explained. If you arrive at the beginning, you are much less likely to be engrossed by a mystery picture which is utterly routine in every detail except the demands it makes upon Ralph Morgan, who seems faintly ill at ease in the turban and smoking jacket of a melodramatic conjurer Typical shot: a young couple (Sally Blanc and Clifford Jones) embracing at the end on the advice of Azrah who just made himself vanish...
...Famed clippers: James Baines, Red Jacket, Lightning, Cutty Sark, Sovereign of the Seas. Best time from Liverpool to Australia: the Thermopylae's 63 days, 18 hours. Later and much slower were the iron & steel wool clippers, the still later four-masted barques competing with steam...