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...Gallon Glaser. One of the Major's articles related: "In December 1927, a man named Matthew Quay Glaser was announced at my office. He was a large, robust individual in a noisy suit of clothes. In his hand was an immense cane, and atop his head was a ten-gallon hat which remained there as he pumped my hand effusively. ... In a voice that would have sounded loud in front of a Coney Island tentshow he enlightened me at length about his magnificent accomplishments. . . . He informed me that he had been delegated by Senator Curtis as his [Curtis...
...Many a year since, the press has found her in Monte Carlo. Until September it would wait. Then, heralding the approaching music season, it would announce that Mary Garden was reducing and rehearsing, soon would return to Chicago. For years in less than the ordinary bathing suit, recently in no bathing suit, she has reduced by swimming in the Mediterranean. Last week, simultaneously with the return of Maria Jeritza to the U. S. came news from Monte Carlo that Mary Garden sometimes swims out to sea with a masseur who, at a convenient spot, rubs, reduces...
...years that he has built boats for the cup contests he had never allowed any fellow-countryman to make a challenge, always getting his own in first. Now 80, ruddy, genial, and almost professionally optimistic, he still affects the costume that appears in most photographs-blue serge suit, yachting cap, polka...
...during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker, but often sails the big yacht in shirtsleeves. When there is the slightest imperfection in the way the boat is handled in practice he puts about and goes through...
...Merchant Siegel was shown to have used funds on deposit with him, to have so falsified his books that expert accountants despaired of ever unravelling them. The next year he went to jail and wept when, because of the smallness of his stature, he was measured for a special suit of prison gray. His second wife, whom he had met when she came to get his Napoleonic story for a newspaper, left him, went to be a War nurse. After serving his ten-month sentence, Merchant Siegel married a third wife (the Western Union girl of Geneseo, N. Y. where...