Word: crepes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enters Mr. Stillings, angry. He drapes the nameplate with black crepe. He puts before it a floral wreath. He adds a placard reading: "Financially Dead." To reporters Mr. Stillings remarks: "Mr. Johnston's conduct has been extremely foolish and I intend to take severe measures with him." As one would suspect, Standard Diamond Co. deals in diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves...
...period gown of cream crepe and silver (or was it crystal?) seemed a part of her. She was alternately serious and arch; now she reflected the lights and shadows of the land of her birth; now she was the spirit of the beauty of Paris, where she has a home; now she might be demanding that her fairy dreams might be also philosophical...
...Established 1844, makes tags, labels, crepe paper, paper napkins, paper boxes, jewelers' cases, sealing wax, glue, mucilage, ideas for festival gimcracks...
...shoot dead the first man who stepped on his porch. "You scoundrels, get out of here and go to hell," said Editor Dean. They went to the plant of the Daily Herald; but the employees of Editor Dean kept them away from the presses with loaded revolvers. They hung crepe on the door of the Daily Herald's offices, then sheepishly went home to sleep...
...have such a crepe-hanger review your CINEMA? Or if this must be, why not change the heading to VINEGA(R)? The two words have letters only in common, and the result is not at all in keeping with your usual attitude. I have seen many of the "New Pictures" written up in your issue of Dec. 26, and from the reactions of the audiences on those occasions, who, after all, are the ones to be pleased, it would seem that your reviewer is entirely out of line with public opinion. Don't you think it rather hard...