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...inscription: "For Bravery in the face of Senate Gas." A telegram offering him the Democratic nomination for President in 1928, which Mr. Dawes accepted provided the Republican nomination was added to it. A small silk hat, to which Mr. Dawes replied: "My head is no larger than it was when I came to the Senate." A yellow taxicab, accompanied by the reading of a parody on "Sheridan 20 Miles Away," which told how Mr. Dawes slept at the Hotel Willard while the Senate voted down the nomination of Charles B. Warren for Attorney General...
...small silk hat, to which Mr. Dawes replied: "My head is no larger than it was when I came to the Senate...
...precisely the colors of male diplomatic attire, black and white. Instead of a "dress shirt" she wore a white crepe de chine blouse. Instead of a "dress tie" she wore a white crepe band around her black cloche hat. Instead of a "dress suit" she wore a black silk cape, and simulated the effect of diplomatic knee breeches by having her black silk dress fall barely below the knees...
...graduate students and a few College officers, and in 1858 took part in a regatta in the first shell ever to appear on the Charles. The choice of crimson as the Harvard color arose out of the fact that Mr. Eliot and a fellow oarsman chose red silk handkerchiefs as the color for the Harvard crew in that regatta. He was doing full College work during this rowing period, besides superintending the construction of Appleton Chapel and a house of his own, which he occupied next fall on his marriage to Miss Ellen Derby Peabody...
...seven famed circus brothers, sixth to die; at Sarasota, Fla., of cerebral hemorrhage. Beginning a seven-man show (themselves the artists) in their home town, Baraboo, Wis., in 1882, they acquired profits the first season of $60 apiece, which they spent on evening clothes and silk hats. By 1890 they were competing with Barnum & Bailey, whose circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently revealed as an art collector (TIME...