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...Contents. When he arrived in Manhattan, Colonel Isham re fused to divulge the price he had paid for the contents of his suit case. He admitted that to secure them had been difficult because Lord Talbot had viewed the old let ters as a peculiarly private account of his great-great-grandfather's charms and indiscretions rather than as an important literary discovery. Successful where other collectors had failed, Colonel Isham took the suitcase to the safe-deposit vaults of the Guaranty Trust Co. where, in an ivory twilight that smelled of oil and steel, he showed all his treasure...
...last week the U. S. started yet another civil suit against Mr. Doheny, to break three leases he holds on strips of oil land adjacent to the Elk Hills reserve...
...Mayor Walker reached Paris from Rome and flipped off the train in a chocolate crush hat, blue shirt and suit, green and brown tie, beige topcoat and lavender handkerchief dashed with brown and purple...
Before Bridge there was for many years Whist; and on Whist are the fundamentals of all types of Bridge laid. Whist was played with a pack of 52 cards; dealt one at a time to four players; partners two and two. The last card was turned up and its suit (hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds) determined the trump. One player led a card, face up on the table, and the others played to it in rotation. The players shedding the highest card of the suit (ace high, king next and so on down to two) took the trick. If his hand...
...Paul's, Taft and Hotchkiss. Where does De Pinna's get that stuff, calling these schools the leading "prep" schools of the East? Most of them are pretty good schools; I know fellows that go there. And how many fellows at Exeter, Andover, Mercersburg and Lawrenceville ever bought a suit at De Pinna's? But there are other leading schools; where the fellows dress just as well as any clothes from De Pinna's. How would De Pinna's like it if I put an advertisement calling Brooks and Rogers Peet the "leading clothing stores" in New York? I guess...