Word: crisp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine actor!" .they exclaim, though their knowledge of such emergencies is limited by a predilection for the Atlantic Monthly and the notion that it is wicked to take two cocktails before dinner. In Gambling, Actor Cohan visits a crisp tart at her bedizened lodgings and in his offers to pay for the upkeep of herself and them, a suspicion of the most vicious improprieties causes her merely to chuckle...
...they drove up to Her Majesty's palace at The Hague, the delegates saw only a large, immaculate wooden house, with a severe square courtyard opening directly off a public street. The house was full of crisp, sweet-scented Dutch flowers, primly arranged in tall vases. There was drink to match the national taste of every guest: French champagne, German hock. British whisky, Italian lacrima christi, Japanese sake, also water and long black cigars from Dutch Sumatra...
...brilliant young Chinese banker of barely 38 swiveled round from his desk in Shanghai last week, peered keenly through tortoise rimmed glasses at a respectful group of correspondents, read in flawless English a crisp, resolute announcement. He was sick and tired, he said, of raising the scores of millions of dollars which Nationalist China has been squandering annually on bootless wars. He, T. V. Soong, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, would no more be a party to China's orgy of military waste. In fine, he announced his resignation as Finance Minister of the Nationalist...
Helen ("Big Helen") Wills, in crisp white linen, crisply set down Mrs. Phoebe Watson...
Toward evening Babe, Donna & Duce motored inland to spend the birthday night at their rustic farm, the Villa Carpena. Lights were doused early. Next day the dutiful Duce bade his spouse a crisp farewell, sped back to his chosen busy bachelorhood in Rome. There, after buying a red carnation?just now his favorite boutonniére?the Dictator settled down to work, found an appalling piece of work...