Love the juxtaposition of Jack being all, ‘I hate writing in pen on paper, grrr.’ and Van Helsing just telling him to suck it up and write
Vs.
Mina: ‘Oh dear, I don’t like to complain, but pen and paper is a bit inconvenient.’ and Quincey immediately rushing in to give her an even newer, sleeker travel model of a typewriter.
(Also, I’d bet money that Quincey and Arthur were tripping over each other to be the one to buy it for her.)
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On this day, October 30
In 2012: My Chemical Romance released the EP "Conventional Weapons: Number One", featuring "Boy Division" and "Tomorrow's Money". (🖤)
Stream "Number One" here!
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Le Petit écho de la mode, no. 44, vol. 20, 30 octobre 1898, Paris. 7. Vêtements d'hiver et sortie de bal. Modèles de Mme de Mirebourg, 9, rue de la Pépinière, Paris. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
I. Vêtement en breitschwantz, composé d’un corps de collet entouré de mouflon; col évasé doublé de mouflon. Ce vêtement, d'une forme gracieuse, est doublé de satin argent. Chapeau de feutre gris orné de plumes blanches.
II. Jaquette en loutre ajustée à basque longue, se composant d’un dos, de petits côtés de dos, et d’un devant croisé garni de boutons de strass et fermé par une sous-patte. Col Médicis, manches unies garnies au bas d’un bouton de strass. Chapeau drapé en velours rubis orné de plumes fantaisie noires et de boucles de strass.
III. Vêtement en loutre et zibeline, se composant d’un corps de collet bordé de zibeline retombant en étole devant et terminé par plusieurs queues. Ce joli vêtement est doublé de satin blanc. Chapeau de feutre noir orné d’une draperie de velours noir et d’un paradisier sur le côté, reposant sur les cheveux, touffe de chrysanthèmes blancs.
IV. Sortie de bal en soie brochée, mauve et blanche. Ce vêtement, d’une forme ample, est doublé de satin blanc, froncé du haut sur un empiècement de zibeline, entouré d'une berthe coupée en forme bordée de dentelle, terminé devait par un coquillé retombant jusqu'au bas et entouré de bandes de zibeline; col Médicis en zibeline. Mat.: 12 mèt. de soie.
V. Collet arrondi du dos formant la pointe devant, se composant d’un empiècement en hermine bordé d'un volant en loutre coupé en forme; col réversible en hermine; doublure en satin ivoire.
VI. Le Manchon assorti au collet en hermine, bordé de chaque côté d’un volant de loutre, est orné d'une petite tête et est doublé de satin ivoire.
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I. Breitschwantz coat, composed of a collar body surrounded by mouflon; flared collar lined with mouflon. This garment, with a graceful shape, is lined with silver satin. Gray felt hat decorated with white feathers.
II. Fitted otter jacket with long peplum, consisting of a back, small sides of the back, and a crossed front garnished with rhinestone buttons and closed with an under-placket. Medici collar, plain sleeves trimmed at the bottom with a rhinestone button. Draped hat in ruby velvet decorated with black fancy feathers and rhinestone buckles.
III. Pelerine in otter and sable, consisting of a collar body lined with sable falling in a stole in front and finished with several tails. This pretty garment is lined with white satin. Black felt hat decorated with black velvet drapery and a paradise tree on the side, resting on the hair, tuft of white chrysanthemums.
IV. Ball cape in brocade silk, mauve and white. This cape, of a loose shape, is lined with white satin, gathered from the top on a sable yoke, surrounded by a berthe cut in shape edged with lace, finished with a shell falling to the bottom and surrounded by bands sable; Medici collar in sable. Mat.: 12 met. of silk.
V. Rounded collar of the back forming the point in front, consisting of an ermine yoke edged with a shaped otter ruffle; reversible ermine collar; ivory satin lining.
VI. Muff matching the ermine collar, bordered on each side with an otter frill, is decorated with a small head and is lined with ivory satin.
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"A Chicken in Every Pot" political ad and rebuttal article in New York Times
Collection HH-HOOVH: Herbert Hoover PapersSeries: Herbert Hoover Papers: Clippings File
This is the advertisement that caused Herbert Hoover's opponents to state that he had promised voters a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage during the campaign of 1928. During the campaign of 1932, Democrats sought to embarrass the President by recalling his alleged statement. According to an article in the New York Times (10/30/32), Hoover did not make such a statement. The report was based on this ad placed by a local committee -- which only mentions one car!
A Chicken for Every Pot [handwritten] World[?] 30 October 1928 [/handwritten] The Republican Party isn't a [italics] "Poor Man's Party:" [/italics] Republican prosperity has erased that degrading phrase from our political vocabulary. The Republican Party is [italics] equality's [/italics] party -- [italics] opportunity's [/italics] party -- [italics] democracy's [/italics] party, the party of [italics] national [/italics] development, not [italics] sectional [/italics] interests-- the [italics] impartial [/italics] servant of every State and condition in the Union. Under higher tariff and lower taxation, America has stabilized output, employment and dividend rates. Republican efficiency has filled the workingman's dinner pail -- and his gasoline tank [italics] besides [/italics] -- made telephone, radio and sanitary plumbing [italics] standard [/italics] household equipment. And placed the whole nation in the [italics] silk stocking class. [/italics] During eight years of Republican management, we have built more and better homes, erected more skyscrapers, passed more benefactory laws, and more laws to regulate and purify immigration, inaugurated more conservation measures, more measures to standardize and increase production, expand export markets, and reduce industrial and human junk piles, than in any previous quarter century. Republican prosperity is written on [italics] fuller [/italics] wage envelops, written in factory chimney smoke, written on the walls of new construction, written in savings bank books, written in mercantile balances, and written in the peak value of stocks and bonds. Republican prosperity has [italics] reduced [/italics] hours and [italics] increased [/italics] earning capacity, silenced [italics] discontent, [/italics] put the proverbial "chicken in every pot." And a car in every backyard, to boot. It has[italics] raised [/italics] living standards and [italics] lowered [/italics] living costs. It has restored financial confidence and enthusiasm, changed [italics] credit [/italics] from a [italics] rich [/italics] man's privilege to a [italics] common [/italics] utility, [italics] generalized[/italics] the use of time-saving devices and released women from the thrall of [italics] domestic drudgery. [/italics] It has provided every county in the country with its concrete road and knitted the highways of the nation into a [italics] unified [/italics] traffic system. Thanks to Republican administration, farmer, dairyman and merchant can make deliveries in [italics] less [/italics] time and at [italics] less [/italics] expense, can borrow [italics] cheap [/italics] money to refund exorbitant mortgages, and stock their pastures, ranges and shelves. Democratic management [italics] impoverished [/italics] and [italics] demoralized [/italics] the [italics] railroads,[/italics] led packing plants and tire factories into [italics] receivership, [/italics] squandered billions on [italics] impractical [/italics] programs. Democratic maladministration issued [italics] further [/italics] billions of mere "scraps of paper," then encouraged foreign debtors to believe that their loans would never be called, and bequeathed to the Republican Party the job of [italics] mopping up the mess. [/italics] Republican administration has [italics] restored [/italics] to the railroads solvency, efficiency and par securities. It has brought rubber trades through panic and chaos, brought down the prices of crude rubber by smashing [italics] monopolistic rings,[/italics] put the tanner's books in the [italics] black [/italics] and secured from the European powers formal acknowledgment of their obligations. The Republican Party rests its case on a record of stewardship and performance. [full transcription at link]
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Orson Welles explaining to reporters that his radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" was fiction. CBS made public the transcript of the dramatization, which was aired the night of October 30, 1938, and caused thousands of listeners to panic because of the realistic broadcast of an imaginative invasion of men and machines from Mars.
The hysteria was nowhere near as great as the media claimed.
Photo: AP via the Denver Post
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