Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cohen Bros.," on two kinds of box. One kind contained some dismal cheroots affectionately known as "Little Cigarros." The other contained larger cheroots; and on this box the Cohen brothers made themselves further offensive by printing, in connection with the name, the "picture of a woman in fancy dress purporting to be that of the plaintiff...
Pictures. Gainsborough's portrait of a young girl in a blue dress with flowers in her hands, flowers in her lap, and a face like a dim sleepy flower, was started at $1,500, raised by three bidders in fast cuts to $20,000, bought by Messrs. Scott & Fowls, dealers. Four more Gainsboroughs were sold for a total of $7,900. Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts paid $31,000 for a picture of a girl and some red herrings by Millais.* Goya's portrait of Pepe Illo, a bullfighter of Madrid, brought $25,000. On the third...
Second only to moose in size, elk thrive on less food than any other deer. They are the hardiest deer, are immune to hoof and mouth disease, Texas fever, lumpy jaw and black tongue. They have "a quiet and contented nature." They dress heavier than any other meat animal. Their meat is considered by many an epicure superior to any meat on the market. It is virtually non-existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh...
...Chicago. They had long admitted that business bagan blossoming with luxuriant new millions of dollars shortly after the slogan, "Say it with flowers!" first was used. Data were not published as to the exact hour when the precious words first unfolded, nor the posture, state of mind, diet and dress of their author at the moment of burgeoning. But the floral directors were at last able to express their belated thanksgiving. They voted last week that a gold medal be struck off, incrusted by a floral design in diamonds, emeralds and rubies, and presented to Florist...
...cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game...