Word: eden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ethics. Dress, it seems, may be at the same time both moral and immoral, depending on whether the final public judgment agrees with convention or the German enthusiasts. If convention is right, Mr. Lloyd-George should not have been caught by the camera-man in such a Garden-of-Eden setting. But, if the naked culturists are right, he should have climbed out of his tweeds and subsidiary garments and posed in the bristling mustache which cartoons made famous during...
...October 16. In the 1923 Oxford-Harvard debate which the Englishmen won by so large a margin the English team showed an informality of delivery which was quite foreign to the Americans, and a wit which crackled and sparkled to the discomfiture of the Americans. "In the Garden of Eden all animals were given tails, but men were left to form their own conclusions. Our chief function in coming to America is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard and Oxford together, but above all to convince the Harvard team of the error of its conclusions...
...recently offered a prize. She would give $1,500, not to mention consolation prizes, for the best name suggested for a 1,500-acre town some real estate men were organizing in the interests of the Rockefeller-McCormick Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte, Ind. He turned in the name, "Edithton Beach," received...
...this bright business Eden, however, some are already eyeing the realtor as a possible serpent.. Despite a strong tendency to inmany large centres, rents are discrease construction operations in tinctly sagging. Florida go-getters who come north to raise funds for the conversion of mangrove swamps into U. S. Rivieras still are entrusted with ample funds, but are meeting with increased skepticism in many quarters. Speculative apartment-builders are cultivating a less haughty "take it or leave it" attitude...
...husband and I were as happy as a man and woman could be in our Garden of Eden until the serpent came. Who was the serpent? I can see the question shaping in your mind, but I can't answer it. That's my secret and it will die with me. Suffice it for the world that the point was reached where my husband was brought to the belief that he had to choose between his partner and his future. He chose...