Word: combe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. Hung against her poop like a great comb of brilliants, a huge electric sign F-R-A-N-C-E made the French Liner France a vessel unique as she moved through her Mediterranean cruise last' week. No other ship is known...
...Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold, funny indeed, for the triple-tonguing of Trumpeter Rolfe and his slapstick jazz...
...challenges a comparison with the others. This piece, a portrait of Galli-Curci, is well done in a realistic manner, where the surface has been minutely worked. How much more interesting and daring is the other painted and laquered wood representation of the prima donna. Here a brilliant red comb above dark hair, and crimson lips suggest the sparkle of the stage. The marble version gives us her features as an individual, while the colored wood by a bold generalization shows us the singer and heroine...
Four ocean liners wheeled from their courses to comb the estimated spot where Old Glory radioed distress. It was a foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...
...barrister matured and developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career. He finished with a gesture?and Charles Evans Hughes, pleased, handed...