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...such tricks was the universal and highly developed practice of copying original styles. By the early Depression years it had gone so far that no exclusive model was sure to remain exclusive for 24 hours; a dress exhibited in the morning at $60 would be duplicated at $25 before sunset and at lower prices later in the week. Sketching services made a business of it; delivery boys were bribed on their way to retailers...
...subliming, and hands and eyes and faces that talk without torturing your ears and making you supply the gaps. You grasp it all while lolling at your ease. And best of all, you recall the happy days ten years ago when you sneaked out of the back yard at sunset, slapped down your dime on the counter that you could barely reach, and revelled in an evening of glorious romance...
Flagellation was the routine official punishment for small offenses and neglect of duties by the privates and non-commissioned officers. The guilty soldier was formally subjected to a medical examination about his heart and lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music...
Seeking out Key for a story, reporters made their way to the luxurious Sunset Boulevard home of the Brothers Harold & Edward Janss. There in a cottage at the rear of the house "Ted" Key and his father James D. Key were in residence, the father acting as "watchman." By this time, though, young Key had disappeared, so it was to the father that newshawks put their queries. Was it true that "Ted" Key was really Clois Francis ("Shorty") Key, who played two years as fullback with the Texas School of Mines in 1930-31? Not at all, declared Father...
...dusk... A little child relating a pleasant dream... A lovely girl in evening clothes descending stairs... Percy Granger's "Country Gardens"; the "Song of India"... A direct blood transfusion between friends... We roofs beneath the lamp light... Polished brass knockers on doors of dull dwellings... The Charles river at sunset... Professor Whitehead lecturing; Professor Lake reading the Bible... The line: "Euclid alone hath looked on beauty bare." Corinthian columns actually supporting a fine entablature... Modesty, any time, any place, viewed from any angle... Feathery, faery dust... The cool kindliness of sheets; the rough make kiss of blankets... The feeling...