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...fashions," announced the Fairchild Fashions Publications, last week, "have emerged from the domain of humor." They have, indeed, entered the domain of sport. Every year to Palm Beach go individuals who stare at neckties, note the shape of bathing suits, write home about the length of knickers, the color of hosiery. They are the "beachcombers" of toggery...
...resist a maid's "Come hither" stare...
Approach these honest bones, nor stare aghast...
...ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...
...they say it is he?the shriveled corpse in a glass coffin, scaled these four centuries, with a foot hacked off, a hand gone, a slash in its throat. For a few pesos, the monks of the cathedral will take you into the dusky chapel and gloat, while you stare, at the mummy-like remains in black vestments.* They will tell you, old hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy of New Castile; who sailed back; slaughtered...