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...Brookhart of Iowa. Shrugging his broad shoulders contemptuously at custom, precedent, and style, he insists on informality at any cost. "If I am asked to the White House," he says, "or to any other state occasion. I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm." It is thought that the shoes, of a rich ochre tint and big enough to allow free play to legislative toes, will save him the necessity of going further, but he magnanimously concedes: "If my constituents wish me to do so, I shall go to the extreme...
Senator Brookhart, who has threatened to wear overalls to formal dinners, naturally finds it contrary to his principles to wear a silk hat. But he is willing to make an exception. " I will wear a silk hat," said he, " at the inauguration to the Presidency of Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa...
...some most enjoyable comedy touches in the scene in the third act between the newly-weds, Ruth, played by Alma Tell, and Bill Elliott, played by A. H. Van Buren. Among other amusing line comes Bill's observation that "The way girls talk nowadays modest men ought to wear a veil...
...subject, subject to Mr. Enright's rule: or whether they should be politely admonished and run out themselves, thus making an end of their distressing double lives in the City. The Tribune favors the latter plan, and speaking editorially, says that "it is disquieting to learn that men who wear blue uniforms by day sport white robes and hoods by night". Quite possibly the Tribune means to imply that the New York police force isn't all it should be. Can it be that police forces in other cities aren't all they should be, or are even a little...
...regards protection against gas," declared Captain Phillips, "masks have now been perfected to such a high degree of excellence that it is possible to wear one for 12 hours without feeling any ill effects." Captain Phillips also said that horses, dogs and even pigeons have been given protection against...