Word: clips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nadia Boulanger is a spare, prim, grey-haired woman whose piercing eyes are frozen behind pince-nez. She dresces severely in black, brightened by a sunburst clip or a silver chain. When she talks, which is often, her hands are as eloquent as her speech...
Sheep in the Cemetery. This year, newsmen found the 656 tattered Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...
...first printing of 625,000 copies will yield author and publishers $93,000 to be split 50-50. Reynal & Hitchcock have increased their own first edition to 50,000 copies, which will net the author another $20,000. (The French edition, now moving at a 1,000-a-month clip, has already sold around 14,000 copies...
Minnesota's beefy Harold Knutson then introduced the first bill: his pet project to cut 20% off taxes on personal incomes up to $302,000, and 10½% above that. In quick succession came revised versions of the Case bill to clip the powers of labor, and a measure by Michigan's anti-labor Clare Hoffman to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits (see BUSINESS), even those already pending...
...away 500 presents. There were the two dozen cashmere sweaters (at $35 apiece) for her young men friends; and wallets with engraved gold plates ("Eddie from Lana") for her older men friends. There were jackets, purses, gloves and jewelry for her women friends. There was a diamond and sapphire clip for her mother, an ermine coat for her 3½ year-old daughter. There were cases of bonded bourbon (at $120 a case) for the boys on the lot. The whole thing would simply be a production...