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Woman in Wall Street. The most impressive thing about E. A. Pierce & Co. is the inexorable System with which it is governed. Governess of this System is Ethel F. Mercereau, long-respected as Mr. Pierce's secretary. It is she who makes Pierce employes toe an exactly defined mark. Pierce men learn to check in early, stay late. If tardy, they may face a stern Miss Mercereau. Pierce men do not have the privilege of sending or receiving personal telephone calls during working hours. Pierce men may not send letters not approved of by Miss Mercereau. Pierce men know...
...group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse convinces, yet it is only superficially, and therefore at times offensively, gruesome. Just one moment like that in All Quiet on the Western Front, when the soldier whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent of Anita Page's baby...
Augustabernard-Pastel and white evening dresses with twisted belts of chiffon velvet. In reaction to the waist-length velvet evening jackets of last Spring are toe-length evening coats, draped like dresses. The Augustabernard waistline is down to the top of the hips...
...them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking for him. He was on tip-toe all that day, expecting outbreaks from almost any part of the city...
...loudly resented the President's "intrusion." declared: "The time hasn't come when any man, before offering himself for office, must make a pilgrimage to the distant shrine of the great political boss and humbly climb up the golden stairway to the throne and kiss his majesty's great toe...