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...austere character there is a curious, flamboyant streak. Somewhere along the way he picked up a German officer's suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through...
...went to London in 1941 to broadcast. He brought a box of chocolates for Lady Astor ("Of course, they may be poisoned. I shall be so interested to hear"), observed that the "sense of my incurable triviality" had deepened at the thought that he was approaching England bearing silk stockings and lipsticks instead of guns and ammunition...
With a little gun that had "been in the family for years" ex-Cinemactress Madge Bellamy, 39, curly-haired, wide-eyed star of the silents (Ankles Preferred, Silk Legs, Summer Bachelors), fired three shots at 53-year-old Lumberman A. Stanwood Murphy as he emerged from San Francisco's swank Pacific Union Club. Murphy high-tailed it for cover, untouched, and Madge gave up quietly. To police, who charged her with assault with a deadly weapon, she explained that she had wanted to scare him, that he had ditched her after his divorce and married somebody else. Released under...
...Spurious luxury increased. The midinette insisted on her silk stockings and her cheap furs in which rabbit predominated. Perfumers made fortunes. ... At the same time it was forgotten that through the centuries the Church had ordered Sunday as a day of rest...
...only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes to wake him, wearing her usual black silk dress and no underclothing. Mutual captivation follows instantly...