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...white hair combed back into a pompadour. Smooth-shaven, his Roman features have been burned dark by Iowa sunshine. A quick engaging smile reveals gleaming white teeth. Not at all the hayseed type of legislator, he wears conservatively cut grey sack suits, feels no embarrassment in cutaway and silk...
...Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity and reverts to fragile silk hose, mascara, rouge, lipstick, perfume, corsets and eye-strain for her husband's sake. This theme is presented with a truly incredible number of historic wheezes and situations...
...Coalition rallied to beat down a regular Republican effort to bulge the silk tariff. Defeat of this item gave them an especial delight because its chief advocate was Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut whose connection, either naive or bold, with the tariff lobby caused commotion last autumn (TIME...
...Majesty the Empress in Luxemburg," said he, slowly pulling off his grey silk traveling gloves. "When I learned that she had come to visit the Grand Duchess* it would have been too late to request an audience. I would not have done it in any case, however, because it would have been considered tactless and would have given a wrong impression at the very moment when Austrian Catholics were demanding an investigation of the legitimacy of the confiscation of Habsburg property...
Inside equipment has been altered and refined. Flower vases are now in the Greek manner; many-hued rayon-silk covers the seats; Egyptian sculpture motives have been adapted for dashboard instruments; vivid soda-fountain marble is used for gear shift handles. With the introduction of non-dulling, non-rusting chrome-nickels, there are more cars with shiny, metallic surfaces than ever before. The hood is sometimes of different texture from the rest of the body...