Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entirely frivolous: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin...
...moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already overdue. The child on the lamp post tossed her head impatiently and made a face at some other children who were lamp posting nearby...
...Duce and Il Re are known to be not always upon the best of terms, the Prime Minister's office carefully informed the press that when news of the explosion reached Signor Mussolini "he bounded from his chair with a mixture of sadness and indignation upon his face." Later the Prime Minister & Head of the State telegraphed His Majesty as follows...
...Chaser. "Girls, isn't he simply darling!" Thus exclaimed one of a series of advertisements in fashionable women's magazines. The face in the copy was Harry Langdon's. His business of being simply darling consists of three gestures: 1) staring blankly like a little boy who has just found half a worm in the apple he is eating; 2) picking his teeth with his thumb and index finger; 3) waddling as if his pants were about to fall down...
...Immediately upon the announcements, demand developed in Manhattan for stocks of the Chase National Bank, which owns the Chase Securities Corp. The bank is considering the issuing of new stock carrying unusual privileges. Simultaneously the price of Guaranty Trust shares rose. And that gave face to a rumor, unsupported, that the two banks might merge...