Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sings "darkey songs" accompanying himself on the piano. In South Carolina he is a potent fisherman, not with rod and reel but with a bamboo pole and a piece of old string with which, from the swamp-bordered streams of his State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends two streams of juice every five minutes, sits close to his desk on the Senate floor. Another Smith habit...
WHEN MISS BRAZIL APPEARS STAGE TONIGHT [the first wire from Galveston read] WILL WEAR SEVERE BLACK CHIFFON GOWN ON PINK SLIP WITH GARLAND ROSES RUNNING DIAGONALLY ACROSS BREAST STOP NO HEAD DRESS FLESH COLORED HOSE BLACK SHOES ALSO DIAMOND NECKLACE AND DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE BROOCH CENTER CHEST...
Other stout Hoover campaigners no longer bound by hoops of steel to the Hoover breast are: Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Col. Horace A. Mann (Klan...
Across his breast was the sash of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus; he wore too the Cross of Malta and Collar of the Annunziata, which gives its wearer the right to call Italy's King "cousin." Arrayed in such dignity but brusque as ever, Benito Mussolini last week strode up the marble stairway that leads to the damasked Hall of Congregations in the Vatican.* In his pocket was a Bank of Italy check for 750 million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall...
Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comédienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn...