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...said he last week to reporters, "I stood by my friend Mr. Brockway to protest against our effete Parliamentary system. The Labor Government will be faced with many more such protests while it continues to ape its so-called betters. Lord Tom Noddy may cut a gracious figure in silk breeches, but the same cannot be said of Jimmy Thomas [the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, M. P., P. C., onetime engine greaser, today Secretary of State for the Dominions...
...Waite Silk Shop, Buffalo...
...Dressed in silk hat and long-tailed coat he approached Girard College, Philadelphia, to give an address. Explained the watchman, barring Dr. Wiley: "Stephen Girard laid down in his will that no minister of the Gospel be permitted to enter these grounds." Dr. Wiley: "The hell you say!" Watchman: "Walk right...
...Real Silk Hosiery...
...hobnails. There were nine burns from abandoned cigarets in the expensive rug. A drink had been spilled in the grand piano. Someone had left a lighted cigar on a mahogany side table. An entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly poured on a beautiful chair upholstered in brocaded silk. An arm had been chipped from a bit of statuary Mme Clore had brought from Italy. A moustache had been pencilled on the lip of her late husband's oil portrait. Seven glasses were broken. Three spoons were missing. The second maid had been seduced. The cook had quit...