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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the schools that furnished a background, the book goes to the years after the century's turn. The story of Roosevelt's climb runs through the story of trusts, meat-packing scandals, oil, railroads, the coal strike, Wall Street Finance, etc., etc...
...January 1927) a patent rain-coat from its German inventor. He doubled his commodity to a practical small package, founded the Rain-Pak Corporation, and has sold over 500,000 waterproof coats since June 1927. He sold 30,000 marked with armbands of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, etc. He sold them to all Liggett Drug Stores...
...Idea: Black and silver, mirrored, pastel-colored bathrooms. The Motive: To make housewives proud of the bathroom; to make this room as modern as the rest of the apartment, flat, house, etc. The Story: Pierre Dutel, also Kerstin Taube, Manhattan interior decor-tors, are sponsoring mirror-tiled bathrooms, tubs & washstands encased in mirrored glass, swan fixtures.* Reflections from the mirrors to the right, reflections from the mirrors to the left confront the bather. To the U. S. soon will come turquoise blue porcelain tubs, basins, says M. Dutel...
...Catholic countries (France, Belgium, Spain, etc.) blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys...
...better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight my troth." Cried Sophie (with no word from the cleric): "I Sophie take thee James, etc., etc." The onlookers were agreeably shocked...