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...made is exemplified by three announced last week: 1) Red tape, the official tying material, is to be replaced by white string, because the latter is cheaper; 2) post-office mail bags will henceforth be made of plain gray canvas instead of white canvas with a blue stripe (the saving from this last change will be about $50,000 a year?less than one twenty-third of a cent per capita); 3) the Weather Bureau stopped sending out its daily postcards carrying forecasts?an institution dating from 1881; newspapers are said to have made the cards unnecessary...
...been renamed the "Pep", and the "Brown Pup" has been changed to the "Black Pup". The names of the "White Pup" and the "Class of 1892" are unchanged. These 4 boats have been painted a brilliant crimson. The "Black Pup" has a 2 inch black stripe on each side and across the stern to distinguish it from the "White Pup," which has a similar stripe of white...
...Street shieks were frankly disappointed with Lord Renfrew's wardrobe. During his visit he has (barring polo kit) only worn two suits, a grey plaid and a grey with a fine stripe; most of the time he went about in grey flannel "bags" and a sport coat. He succeeded, however, in introducing suede shoes into the country. It was noticed that many males strutted about Belmont Park, shod in the soft rough leather...
...gosh, but life was complicated in Neuberg! But if you like imaginary countries- and secret passages-and duels-and hasty rides through the night-and all the grand old blood-and-thunder- here's by far the best romance of the Anthony-Hope-George-Barr- McCutcheon stripe that has appeared for lo, these many long years...
Group 1, is, from the conservative viewpoint, concerned with prudence. If it is desired to prove the point that our Government has become unfortunately somewhat class-biased of late, nothing could do it better than the continued imprisonment of a kindly old man like Debs, while men of the stripe of Franz Von Rintelen, German spy and bomb-plotter, are released. Nothing is better calculated to arouse the desire to shake the control of the owners of the means of production over our public life than such a spectacular example of the results of this control...