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...kind of man who conceives an ideal order of society is, it seems, predestined to have the befoliaged type of face. There was Plato with his curly tonsorial scenery, Karl Marx with his generous whiskers, Lenin with chin shrubbery, Trotzky with a soup moustache. When one comes to King C. Gillette, famed inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, one would think that regardless of any idea in his head, he would be clean-shaven. Not so. His book*-a manufacturer's view of society-possibly explains the razor man's moustache. What he proposes is, in effect...
...Berengaria (Cunard) : Helen Wills, U. S. woman tennis champion; Arthur Hammerstein and his wife, Dorothy Dalton; Pat Sullivan, originator of the famed cinema cat "Felix;" Dr. J. T. Dorrance, Campbell Soup President; Dr. A. Hamilton Rice, South American explorer and Mrs. Rice, onetime widow of George D. Widener; A. J. Horlick, Malted Milk President; Mrs. Rebecca West, authoress...
President Coolidge, having received the letter, and having been advised that Mr. Pinchot's Prohibition passion had been mixed with senatorial soup, could endure no more. He, indignant, wrote to the Senate of the U. S. a letter which caused that august herd to snort and trumpet like so many hippopotami surprised at the feeding hour...
According to Gandhi's son Devadas, the Mahatma lost eight of his 98 pounds in prison. This is attributed to his rule to eat only twice a day, at sunrise and sunset, and never more than five articles of diet. (He counts soup seasoned with salt and pepper as three articles...
...Rome to urge one of their good race for the office. Delegations of Germans likewise. Said the Irish: "Give us no foreigners, but an Irishman!" The Pope chose Mundelein. To Chicago he went His position was "difficult." At a welcoming banquet 150 prominent citizens were poisoned by the soup. At the next banquet, the new Archbishop drank the soup first. And ever since he has grown, quietly, in the respect of a strident community. No archdiocese is more efficiently run. Its head has never committed a public blunder. The youngest to graduate, the youngest to become Bishop...