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Last fortnight, for example, the President reviewed the United States Fleet. Last week Mr. Kent reviewed the review under the heading: A New Way to Review a Fleet. When Presidents Roosevelt, Wilson and Harding reviewed the Fleet, said Mr. Kent, "silk-hatted and frock-coated [they] stood rigidly on the bridges of their boats from the moment the first gun was fired until the last ship had passed. . . . Full dress is the order of the day. It isn't a matter of taste-it's orders. And presence of the President on the bridge is essential...
...with American police methods. M. Daudet would most certainly have been sworn at; he might very readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear gas, riot...
...like storybook fashion rose Tenor Frederick Jagel, 25-year-old son of a Long Island church organist, another of Mr. Gatti-Casazza's finds. As he sang in the choir he charmed a wealthy silk merchant, who financed Singer Jagel's higher instruction. He is singing in Italy as Signer Iagelli...
What would U. S. editors say if President Calvin Coolidge ordered for the White House servants a set of magnificent liveries: canary-yellow coats, wine-colored breeches, white silk stockings, patent leather pumps...
Embarrassed, Lawyer Untermyer protested that he possessed no suitable clothes, but soon the U. S. Legation supplied a frock coat, striped trousers, silk hat. Said Mr. Untermyer, later...