Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hahn Lawyer, stalwart S. Lawrence Miller, grinned. "In short," he suggested, "she has a face like a mask and the rest of her is like a balloon...
Back to Sir Joseph came favorable reports by "expertizers" of the two paintings. Said they of the Lardoux portrait: "Soggy and bulgy ... it resembles in portions a child's balloon . . . mouth too luscious . . . angularity of the 18th century is here translated into the suavity of the late 18th...
Yachting, polo, horse-racing and balloon-racing were boomed by Bennett. Many a Bennett Cup still stands. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three terms and sailed five races across the Atlantic...
Since Count Bethlen himself recently intimated that a royal election might be expected soon, his remarks of last week probably meant that the Allied Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...
...dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point, and then at the game it is released. It may go off with a loud bang or subside with a melancholy "whoosh!" depending on the circumstances, but in any case the balloon is empty until the next game comes around...