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...William C. ("Pop") Fuller, had had a hand in promoting this growth. Knowing how things were apt to be with the doctor away and all, he got into the way of dropping over every afternoon and taking Helen down to the Berkeley Tennis Club. "Pop" would spread his silk handerchief on the service line, give Helen four dozen balls and let her shoot...
Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood bareheaded that awesome morning, shortly afterwards became ill. Last week he died...
...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...Mabel's Room (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). The old stage farce which became entangled with the police in 1924 has been revived, slightly pasteurized, for the screen. It is a story of a girl's silk undershirt and how it pursued her doggedly through various love affairs. It is a farce of the frantic, door-slamming variety, and fairly funny...
Institute of Arts, where a scene of crime was revealed. Against the open window lay a woman, painted by Franz Hals, worth $40,000. Torn bodily from its place, disappeared, was an early Persian-silk animal rug, priceless example of its type and period. It, as well as the bust of the alabastine lady below, was the gift to the museum of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford...