Word: boudoired
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...flagpole and people will gape. Put a woman in a public boudoir: will not people gape and gape again? Believing that they will, M. Rich & Bros. Co. (department store) of Atlanta, Ga., engaged Edna Kirby, cinemactress, to live in one of their show windows for a week. She arrived in Atlanta one morning last week, was welcomed at the city hall by Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, then went about her window business-a daily routine of lounging, eating, lounging, dancing with callers, chatting, tidying, lounging. At 9 p. m. she prepared to retire. The curtains of the show window were...
...lights. It would be patently ridiculous for him to write a play-by-play account of the Saturday games, or even discuss the strategy of the rival elevens, on Monday afternoon after all the others papers had done this. Thus it is that Mr. Carnes is driven to seeking boudoir interviews with the Crimson athletes, the recording of quaint statistics, and the unearthing of other...
...coffeehouses, the clubs, the theatres of the day or from the author's own invention. Praised by many critics, it caused Frank Sullivan, playboy of the New York World, to join the old, outmoded, bedroom school of literary criticism in his admission that the book had caused his boudoir reading lamp to burn long and late. Perhaps an extravagance, a lack of grace in critical compliments implies a lack of capability in the critic, but in this case the grotesque writhing of reviewers is only in one sense unnatural. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne thoroughly deserves the applause, if not the applesauce...
...Empress Hermine," as many Germans call this Princess in her own right, modestly occupied last week only four rooms of the old palace: bedroom, boudoir, sitting-room, bath. As a small earnest of Wilhelm II's great wealth, Princess Hermine brought with her two Mercedes automobiles...
...rival sleeping car, the Mann "Boudoir Car" with sleeping compartments set transverse to the car length as in European railway cars, was operated between Boston and Manhattan in 1883; was expensive; could not endure before Pullman Co. aggressiveness...