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...first published work of any kind. A Scotch girl from Paisley (where the great Paisley shawls were made), she came to the U. S. 12 years ago, aged 19. An art student, Author Spencer paints "strange and surprising landscapes, which are the admiration of her friends," designed the jacket for her own book. She knows more artists than writers, reads few modern writers, has never read Thomas Hardy, to whose Tess of the D'Urbervilles her book has been compared...
Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...
Centre of interest was the Barber, who, swathed in a large white jacket borrowed from the cook and carrying a sanguine daubed wooden razor, was none other than Edward Windsor. No newcomer to the Equator is H.R.H. He first crossed the Line in 1920, crossed again last year on his interrupted African hunting trip which he is now completing, and was once incautious enough to allow himself to be festively photographed in a blonde wig, a most effeminate dressing gown, a palpably false bust...
...Included in this division were of course the venerable Johnson Motor Co. and Outboard Motors Corp., merger of Elto, Evinrude and Lockwood. The latter offered a 29-lb. folding outboard motor to be tucked into a small carrying case. Among the inboards, Universal Engine Co. showed the "Blue Jacket," a 4-cylinder, 45 h. p. plant for runabouts. Larger engines embraced Chrysler's new "Majestic," a 152 h. p. eight, and Winton's mighty new 16-cylinder V-type Diesel weighing 18,500 lbs. to give...
Before noon officials began to arrive in their motors to greet President & Mrs. Hoover. Citizen Hunefeld recognized many of them-Vice President Curtis, Speaker Longworth, the British Ambassador in his red jacket. Finally the great White House gates swung open and Citizen Hunefeld marched grandly at the head of his procession up the curving sidewalk to the big glass doors of the White House. When these opened Citizen Hunefeld did a gallant thing: removing his cap, he stepped aside to allow Mrs. Barrett to lead the line past the President...