Word: branch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British male fashions as distinguished from French feminine modes were subjected to ponderous analysis, last week, by Sir Edwin Forsyth Stockton, potent British textile merchant. His most vital point: "The recent general turning up of trousers at the bottom has opened up a very important branch of trade, since it has created a demand for the fancy sock. The modern man of taste wants his socks exposed to view and to harmonize with his trousers and the general scheme of his dress...
...with a million of his stout henchmen, still hangs in abeyance. But if such a multitude are not ready to name that mountebank for their leader, there are enough whose sentiments concur with his, to form a very considerable block against the election of Governor Smith. The women's branch of the Democratic party has stated an equally strong determination against the nomination of an avowed wet. And it was for this wetness that Mr. McAdoo assailed the New York governor in an important address in Virginia that belied the harmony of the Jackson Day dinner, and promised much strength...
...free lances. If the Aries man is immoral, it is in a conventional way. But he is honest. Both men and women are subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck...
Round was the tribute, and warranted. John Jacob Abel, 70, has added many a stone to the house of human knowledge. His special field has been pharmacology, a branch that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...
Asked which she enjoyed more, opera or concert singing, she replied, "I have no preference. I enjoy my work, no matter in what role I am performing or in what branch of the art I am participating. I enjoy seeing the crowds and never tire of meeting people. Consequently my work is a constant source of enjoyment...