Word: blush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house is full. With ponderous trimmings the ceremonies start; the picture runs its petty pace; friends cheer friends; foes whisper obloquies. Then to the stage steps someone who is someone. He makes a speech. He summons to his side the stars of the particular pictures. They bow and blush. The audience cheers wildly. Some people get bored and go out. Soon everyone goes out. Outside the radio tells the world the stars are going out. More cheers. Cries of "good night...
...Others were collected by their agents in Continental and Eastern markets. Where they may have nestled, whence they may have come, no man can tell save only this: none is "old;" i.e., has ever been worn. As each pearl came in, experts scrutinized; demanded flawless texture, absolute sphericity, iridescent blush. A dozen, a score passed muster. The necklace was conceived. Pearl by perfect pearl, it grew until six months ago the fifty-ninth completed the only famous necklace now in existence. All the others have been broken up, have disappeared: the Comtesse de Castiglione's was sold...
...citizens as the fact that the great mass of them have, at one time or another, read the Saturday Evening Post. Many internationally smart U. S. citizens are proud of the world's most widely read magazine; but in London they must sometimes apologize and sometimes blush for the Post's chronic misuse of British titles and excruciating presentations of the habits and customs of butlers, footmen, peers, peeresses...
...Chuckled wickedly when a crimson blush of shame suffused the countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently...
...other son-in-law of Mrs. Kate ("Mother") Merrick is the Earl of Kinnoull. He, shameless, did not blush...