Word: classics
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From Louisville the ditty and the tune spread far and wide throughout the land. By a process of corruption it became a schoolroom classic which moppets sang as follows...
...lavish furnishings. With Antony, Cleopatra's technique is less subtle than with Caesar. She inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull...
...Classic example of the prosperity which other farmers may enjoy is the State of Iowa. Last year her 450,000,000-bu. corn crop, at an average price of 31¢ a bu., was worth $136,385,000. This year's crop, estimated at not more than 261,000,000 bu. will sell, experts agree, at above 62¢?a total net gain for the State of some $25,000,000 over last year. With last week's hog prices up to $6.65 a cwt. against $2.80 in June, the Des Moines Register & Tribune's able Farm Editor J. S. Russell...
...that of Man o' War is Mrs. Sloane's Cavalcade. The only race Cavalcade has lost this year is the Preakness, in which he was a close second to his stablemate, High Quest. He has won the Shenandoah Purse, Chesapeake Stakes, Kentucky Derby, American Derby, Detroit Derby and Arlington Classic, against the best horses of his age in the country. At the Saratoga yearling sales in 1932, Cavalcade cost his owner $1,200. He is now insured at $200,000, valued at $500,000. His winnings total $126,965. Far below Sun Beau's world record...
...seamstress. Small, nimble, birdlike, she is incredibly skillful with the needle, sews better than anyone in her shop. Although she is reputed to be the daughter of a Monte Carlo cocotte, her contemporaries speak of her with awe and respect, consider her the dressmaker's dressmaker. She achieves a classic elegance of line at the expense of color. To make her gowns cling to the figure she cuts her materials on the bias. A couturier for nearly 40 years, she designs her models on a famed wooden doll...