Word: circularity
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...310th and last page without discovering the mild hoax. For no author's name is on the title-page, and the book is written as if by Alice B. Toklas herself. But cognoscenti, even if they had not been forewarned by advance publicity, would recognize the circular motto on the book's cover-a signature as peculiar to Gertrude Stein as his famed butterfly was to Painter James Mcneill Whistler. The motto: Who & What is Gertrude Stein? "Widely ridiculed and seldom enjoyed," she is one of the least-read and most-publicized writers of the day. Her incom...
...with paper, its walls smeared with grime and dirt. When the presses pounded on the floor above, a thin downpour of dust floated over the room. Grimy wires and rusty old hooks used by gymnasts when Tammany Hall had occupied the building were suspended from the ceiling. A tortuous circular staircase led to the room, up & down which ambitious young reporters used to trudge: Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, David Graham Phillips, Edwin C. Hill, Will and Wallace Irwin, Walter Pritchard Eaton. It was the old city room of the New York...
...Preakness, developed a blind quarter crack (hidden bruise) that made it look as though he might never run again. Last year, heavier (1,080 lb.), more composed, he lived up to his promise by winning ten of his 14 starts, setting a world's record for a circular mile race of 1:34⅔. This year he has won all six of his races. The $17,230 he won last week made his total winnings $314,420-only less than Sun Beau's $376,744. Phar Lap's $332,250, Gallant...
...Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening, sheaths of rich, soft materials (velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens...
...Bohlen was the ousting from the ministries of economics and industry last week of two Nazis supposed to be rabidly Socialistic, Otto Wagner and Alfred Muller. Finally all talk of a "Second Revolution" among Nazi radicals was vigorously spiked by Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick in a circular letter to the Statthalters (Hitler-appointed "Viceroys" of all the German states...