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...Hotel Ritz Carlton yesterday; but almost momentarily her face brightened because "There are also more cheerful moments in our lives," as she put it. "Once I was taking the part of Marguerete in 'Faust'; the performance was in Montreal and I had been given a beautiful fancy petticoat to wear. Well, I have to kneel down and pray in one act there, and my heel caught in that beautifully complicated lace netting. When I started to get up, the lace began in tear and this impromptu tail trailed after me as I strode across the stage. The audience was laughing...
Knees. "All co-eds must wear bloomers reaching to the tops of their hose at all times," decreed Dean Agnes Ermina Wells, Indiana University. It all started when a pretty co-ed crossed her legs in the library. An admiring student wrote a note, mentioned knees, asked for date...
...great, that is, he is endowed with extremely unnatural characteristics from the earliest days. He is a little too square and solid, a little oppressive. This aspect is not helped by the other characterizations. They are all a little overdone, and being too cut and dried, they do not wear well. The style contributes to this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey as a "Mucilaginous miscellany of stuffed gobbler" one feels slightly...
...Miss Leslie's should abandon, as they threaten to do, the debated territory of the fashionable tea shoppe to their enemies, the hairy-legged racquetmen, offers possibilities of stone throwing. The female crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose should not wear short dresses." And even if the girls in question discreetly whisper a depilatory solution, the Harvard athlete would probably be no more willing to give up their Esau birthright than to wear silk stockings which leave little to the imagination. It is decidedly unsportsmanlike...
Dress. The impression which the trip was calculated to create became evident in a small White House news item of last month. All was being arranged even to the incidental of what the newspapermen should wear. Such of "The Boys" as expected to attach themselves to the President's official entourage, said Secretary Everett Sanders, had best make ready their cutaway coats and pin-striped morning trousers. Silk toppers, patent leather shoes, spats and a stick would be the correct accessories. Nowhere, the inference was, is a greater premium set upon costume than at a Pan-American Congress...