Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's first worry was railroad accommodations; he wired ahead for three parlor car seats and was amazed to find a special train awaiting him. With him and his wife on that strained journey to the capital rode the Boston businessman named Stearns whose ancient dream of a Northampton mayor in the White House was coming true...
...Morrow-Lindbergh engagement was incredible not only to dream-sick young girls. Mr. Morrow's good friend and Englewood, N. J., neighbor, potent Board Chairman Seward Prosser of the Bankers' Trust Co., could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss...
...close to one another, but the distance between naturalness and high emotional crisis is so far that it is difficult not to lose conviction at one end or the other of the journey. Both Miss Cowl and Mr. Merivale ring a tone less true within Peter's dream than out of it. Perhaps it is a subtlety that this should be so in a dream land...
...even smaller and sleeker, many brimless and exposing the forehead. 8) Colors, brighter, with contrasting red and black in the ascendant, plus many new shades: pewter, menthe, lucifer, Capudne, Lelong blue and green. . . . 9) Fads red hair, tennis trousers for women, pajamas at luncheon.* naughtily named knee length nightskirts: "Dream of Me," "Alarm Clock," "Midnight Tonight," "Turn Your Head. . . ." French mannequins this year have dropped exaggerated posturing, are seeking to resemble la type Americaine introduced in 1924 by Jean Patou when he imported a dozen U. S. young women and an English brunette now famed as the actress June. Nephew...
Last week the dream of a 3,000-mile sub-Atlantic railway seemed to grow ever so slightly less mad, as Britons and Frenchmen got down again to dealing seriously with their half-century-old project of driving a double-track tunnel under the English Channel, 21 miles across. In London the French Ambassador, popular M. Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau, officially declared at a dinner tendered him in the House of Commons, "When the British Government and the British Nation are ready to build the tunnel we will build it with them. We very much desire...