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...scrawl explained that the small man was, in consideration of $100 paid, entitled to sell "hot dogs" and soft drinks at a stand in that square during the trial. The policeman explained for an hour. The small man trundled his lumber away...
...race is getting soft in its cities; but you ought to see some of the mothers I could show...
...price. He usually choses suits of blue or grey; has one brown suit, purchased at Mrs. Coolidge's suggestion that he vary his colors. He -'likes to wear double-breasted coats. His trousers have no cuffs. He never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third finger). No fop, the President disturbed the White House valet by putting three cigars in the pocket of his formal evening clothes. The valet maintained that more than two cigars made...
...shack in the woods near Syracuse, N. Y., students of Cazenovia Seminary smoked in furtive privacy. Last week, startled, they learned that Student Theodore Kensicki, 17-year-old aspirant to the ministry, was about to "squeal" on them. Eight of the smokers lured Student Kensicki with soft words to a lonely spot. While he kicked, lunged, writhed, they tore off his clothes, scrubbed his skin raw and. bleeding with a wire brush. Into his sorry scratches they then rubbed iodine. They left Student Kensicki screaming with pain, minus five teeth. Soon they left the seminary, suspended by the president...
...subservient. Observe also the splendid prehensibility of the hands, one resting elegantly on the smooth bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson velvet of the doublet, the soft fur of the collar, the liquid blue of the sapphire, the glint of the pendant pearl on his chest. Surely our picture is one of the great achievements...