Word: bore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marquis de Chambre of Brittany. She brought her husband a natural dowry of dark hair and eyes, Gallic chic. Her property dowry included a painting of a gentle faced brunette whose bosom plumply filled her brick-red velvet bodice. The painting was on two layers of canvas, bore on the back the inscription: "Taken from the wood and put on canvas by Hacquin at Paris, 1777."* It had been acquired by the Lardoux family from an aide of Napoleon Bonaparte. Mile. Lardoux owned it with joy, because, in 1916, Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had pronounced it in writing...
...kept as simple as possible this story about the big trader who is a sucker in love. The Wolf explains stratagems to his partners with a blackboard and pointer in a way that can be understood by anyone who can cut out a paper doll. That this will bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting her honey's ear. Olga Baclanova has the best singing voice in the cinema business. Her father, a Moscow artist, used...
...chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor...
...members of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
During the War his shoulder straps bore the twin bars, his blouse collar the twin wings of a captain of aviation, reserve corps, U. S. A. After the War he returned to Science, spied on rats and mice, noted inherited coloration and acquired traits, at the Carnegie Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution. In 1922, Dr. Little became President of the University of Maine...