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...members may have a chance to "haze" a pretty young stockbroker in skirts.f For Miss Cleary is pretty. Last week she saw screen star Nita Naldi and a prize beauty off for Europe on the midnight S. S. Paris. Flashlight men found her more smartly dressed than the former, prettier than the latter. Under the hard daylight of Watson & White's uptown stockbrokerage office in the Hotel Berkeley, she is thought still prettier...
...Glenn writes about four such women; one is Mrs. Habersham, who, as she approaches old age, is entirely concerned with matters of sex which she should have outgrown; Mrs. Habersham resides with her elder and married daughter Alice May, who is stupider, prettier, lazier than her mother; visiting Alice May are her two aunts, Sallie and Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like...
...Annela Bailey, the prettier of the two women on the dismissed jury, unburdened herself: "Is it really a fact that the Supreme Court passed on a case exactly like this one, that it was a civil one, and found that a conspiracy did exist? Wouldn't we have looked foolish if we had given a verdict just the opposite of the Supreme Court's!... What do people like us know about such a case as this?" Mrs. Bailey said that Lawyer Martin W. Littleton of the defense looked "slick" to her, and "more like a teddy bear than...
Manhattanites went last week to a fish show, which is quieter than a dog show, prettier than a horse show. At a fish show, small creatures with few desires swim around in their tanks, staring out with gulps of incredulity at the pallid, blurred faces of monsters moving awkwardly in another element...
...contributed, in August, 1924, to the American Mercury, nor is there any evidence that his point of view has shifted since that date. Entitled "Mr. Coolidge," the article began by maintaining that Washington correspondents, awed by the presidential office, eager for presidential esteem, always paint a President "a little prettier than...