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When Minister of Marine Rollin pirouetted, his gesture swept a Grand Salon in slick, mirror-like birdseye maple, softly lit by carved glass Lalique electroliers. Though he had just exhorted Frenchmen to build ugly cargo boats, M. Rollin waxed ecstatic a few minutes later at a unique new feature of the Paris, proudly displayed by dynamic General Director Maurice Tillier of the French Line. On no other ship, claimed he, is there an entire deck devoted exclusively to grand luxe suites each with a separate, private promenade-veranda on which the dogs and children of rich passengers may do their...
...biggest hunt of the year comes on Thanksgiving Day when the Middleburg hounds meet at Foxcroft and the girls themselves serve the hunt breakfast in the old brick dining hall. Another great event is Alumnae Day in May when hundreds of Foxcroft parents and graduates drive over Virginia's slick concrete roads to Middleburg and out to Foxcoft to eat a luncheon and watch the Foxes and the Hounds (competitive divisions of the whole school) play at basketball on a neat grass court...
Soon Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe came to stand for long minutes looking down at the man he had often called his most valuable assistant. M. le Prefect is a Corsican, slick and hard, but his voice broke as he turned to M. Benoit, grimvisaged Chief of the Surete General (Secret Service). "You tell his wife, Benoit," said Corsican Chiappe, "I can-not-the five poor little ones...
...Miles. "It must make an old cowman mad to see a fellow in shiny boots and polo pants riding a slick horse. Well, it hurts in a way to see these mail pilots climbing up into heated cabins or cockpits and talking to somebody on the ground over the radiophone." Thus re-pined E. Hamilton Lee, 37, who flew the first experimental air mail routes for the Government eleven years ago. Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed...
...Zagreb Narodno Kazalista peeked nervously through the curtain, and noticed that the theatre was half-filled with students from the Zagreb Technical College. There was nothing surprising in this, for on the stage of the Zagreb Narodna Kazalista, usually the home of grand opera and classic drama, that slick-haired, honey-colored Harlem Negress. Josephine Baker, was due to appear. What worried the manager was the lack of welcome in the mien of the young Croatian technicians. When la Backaire, as most of Europe calls her, started to dance, her nubile body girdled with a zone of ripe bananas...