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...Hoover descended the stairs, entered the Blue Room, took a good solid stand near its centre. Usher Hoover threw open the door from the Green Room. In marched square-jawed half-bald William Duncan Herridge, hearty brother-in-law of Canada's Prime Minister Bennett, resplendent in blue jacket lavishly embroidered with blue, gold and white braid. Escorting him was that elegantly correct Harvardman, Richard Southgate, Assistant Secretary of State, who introduced the President and the Minister. All three bowed simulta- neously...
...teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone at the Eton-Harrow dance at Hurlingham, and Monday send the "nipper" back to school, along with the other small Etonians (under 5 ft. 4 in.) in toppers and truncated jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear which the school wears in all seasons. For the rest of the term-until the last of July-British public school boys have no such pother...
...then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...
Behind the bar, clad in white jacket, was the creator of both: versatile, temperamental Artist Author Inventor John Vassos. The room he had created was more original than the spigots. The upper parts were of aluminum; the lower painted grey. Grey predominated, even in the hangings and the seat coverings of the modern furniture, although some of these were Chinese rose or black. Only other color: green spigot handles. One of the critics called the designs "irrational versatility...
Seldom have so many famed flyers gathered together as in a banquet room of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt one night last week. There were bronzed "Lon" Yancey, meek-looking Clarence Chamberlin, debonair Col. Fitzmaurice and his rescuer, sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying...