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A Manhattan drawing room bloomed with soft red light. A company of people, stained with the same grave color, sat staring at a pair of red plush curtains. It was a breathless moment. Once the curtains, brushed from behind by a moving shape, vaguely stirred, and then an excited whisper...
When gay dogs get together there is apt to be noise. Last week 2,261 of them got together in Madison Square Garden, and the occasion was not a quiet one. Yaps filled the air, woofs, yowls, basso bur-wurs and tender tenor barks. Dogs were benched in neat interminable...
Wednesday. Marvelous morning. Patou called me up and asked if I should like to try on my dresses. Would I like to try them on! An old-rose coat trimmed with fur, a satin cyclamen evening frock, a white silk tennis dress wonderfully cut, one walking dress of rose, another...
Just 100 years ago a babe with an enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed...
In Hamburg, Germany, lived a boa constrictor. He was the pride of the municipal zoo, and all day he reclined in his cell, staring down with absorbed eyes at his scaled and glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day...