Word: figs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propose the fig leaf as your emblem, gentlemen! Honor it as the origin of your great Merchant Tailors' Federation. When the Garden of Eden crisis occurred, Eve took the only available fig leaf, and Adam had to clothe himself in heavy skins...
...present day of grace, Eve has returned to her old principle of the scant fig leaf, but Adam still clothes himself heavily and laboriously. . . I suggest more color in Adam's clothes. . . . May we live to see a scarlet morning coat worn with fig-leaf-green trousers and a canary waistcoat...
...were actually uttered by Guest-of-Honor Sir Nicholas Gratten-Doyle, M. P., and Director of Northern Newspapers Co., Ltd. But friends of Sir William doubted. They knew that he knows his Bible. Therefore it seemed impossible that he could have so thoroughly scrambled the Genesis story of the fig leaves and the suits of skins...
...succeeded in selling one to a police man by pasting an Oil! jacket on a Bible. No practical joke, this was supposed to involve the Bible in whatever legal proceedings might be brought against Oil! In a spirit more of fun and smartness, Author Sinclair brought out a special Fig Leaf Edition for Boston, with censored passages decorously stamped out by fig-like foliage. A likely passage for a fig leaf: "And then the new President : a little man whose fame was based upon the legend hat he had put down a strike of the Boston policemen, when the truth...
Asked concerning the growth of Hollywood, Mr. Lyon said. "20 years ago, Hollywood was nothing but orange groves and fig trees. It has grown with the motion picture business. Where 20 years ago there was plowed ground and fruit trees, six and seven story Buildings now stand. Hollywood is just one large institution. Boston is a city where there are many industries, many manufacturing plants and people engaged in many trades. Hollywood is different, It centers around the moving picture business entirely. Very little that doesn't pertain to pictures, happens out there...