Word: angel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pearls and brilliants" set off with an amazing false Card of first dynasty Egyptian origin, through the anachronisms of Herod in the manner of Quentin Matsys and the Second Wise-man in that of the lamented Hoffman, in the sober and mildly successful third wiseman, the Virgan and the Angel (who in passing it may be said was most unfairly made...
...Story.* Out of the tempestuous waters of Leghorn Harbor and in upon the pitching deck of the U. S. clipper, Witch of the West, towards the evening of the 8th of July, 1822, is tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost...
...Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza's unviolated flaxen locks, accused unbobbed women of having "microbes." She knew all about James John ("Gene") Tunney's having whipped Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight boxing championship. "My boy won," she said. "He's an angel, and so good looking. . . . I wouldn't mind a bit being engaged to that great big, handsome, blond boy. I saw him in Miami last winter and gave him a gold medal of the Blessed Virgin, and they tell me he carried it with him in the fight...
...American Gas Association, whose meeting at Atlantic City last week was in accidental coincidence with that of the dieticians, is interested in cooking. Delegates heard that pie and angel cake are the two most popular U. S. dishes. Boston baked beans and corn pone have yielded to delicacies. Missourians like Spanish dishes. In New York pie and cake are most popular, in New Jersey nothing in particular...
...Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay our time and expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting list. We admire King Arthur, who gave Anglia a good administration and checked the Saxon crime wave more than Sir Galahad who went off by himself to catch a glimpse of the Holy Grail, although the latter achieved what...