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German science, invention and industry are teeming. Among developments lately reported have been things so varied as synthetic petroleum, and precious stones, motor fuel with water as a large ingredient, silk out of lobster shells and other garbage, bullet-proof police clothes. But aviation is the prime field in which Germany proposes to dominate the world tomorrow. Supremacy in the air will, she thinks, give her commercial supremacy. While "DIN," the Deutsche Industrie Normung, works on earth to standardize every manufactured product in Germany? from collar buttons to apartment houses?and begs the industries of other nations to cooperate...
...pansy on the cushioned floor of her boudoir in their suburban mansion, Mme. Clemente vents her jealousy and disapproval of Crystal's wild-honeymoons, by telling all to the newspapers. That is where the narrator comes in, as an astute young literata fresh from the wheat belt, starved for silk lingerie and articulate courtship. An editor from whose gentle, sadistic lip cigarets droop two and three at a time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings or crowsfeet; an aged...
...from Paris can be taken as at all definitive in the matter of masculine attire. A day or so ago, there appeared at the Bourse, just at the moment when business activity was at its highest, a young man dressed in an extraordinary costume consisting of buckled shoes, long silk stockings, satin knee-breeeches, an ordinary vest and sack coat, a felt hat, and a cane. For a few moments business stopped and the crowd stared at his costume and admired his courage and then in contradistinction to the enthusiast who became so enamored of classical culture that he wandered...
...faithful to combat feminism. They remembered not the benevolent attitude toward women-kind of Tamburlaine the Great. He, magnanimous, referred to his chief wife as "The Honorable Great Lady." When she entered a state apartment 15 ladies-in-waiting held up the perimeter of her enormous skirt of silk and cloth of gold to enable her to walk. Three more attendants steadied by silken cords her towering headdress, which began with a wealth of black hair, rose like an immense extinguisher bestudded with gems, and was surmounted by a pretty little gold castle from which sprouted a crowning spray...
...died. Napoleon, Metternich, Wellington, Peel-he had sent flowers to a thousand notable graves. Gladstone and Disraeli-because he lived, they had to wait. And Bismarck had just begun. The last light of the 18th Century flashed in Palmerston's eyes-eyes which, shaded by a white silk hat, were too weak to catch any glimpse of the 20th Century...