Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who will serve as patronesses are Mrs. F. W. Bennot, Mrs. C. H. Burrill, Mrs. J. H. Davis, Jr., Mrs. W. S. Finer, Mrs., G. W. Knight, Mrs. D. B. Lawson, Mrs. J. A. Lowell 2nd, Mrs. H. K. Nowhall, Mrs. W. E. Sands, and Mrs. R. W. Short...
...have little in common. Wiener is Parisian to the finger tips, loves any city. Doucet spends his spare time on his farm near Bordeaux where he makes wine, raises cows and pigs. Since their arrival in the U. S. Wiener has been able to stomach only the finer kinds of U. S. cooking, such as chicken a la king. Doucet proudly eats griddle cakes & maple syrup, pork & beans...
...estimated that if some 500 dozen dinner plates could be sold at $12 a set, the halls could be supplied with the finer china at a reasonable cost. Although modest notices in the Alumni Bulletin were almost the only means of advertisement employed, newspapers printed columns upon the project, with the result that some 6,000 dozen plates were sold...
...bookdealer, gives all his time to painting ridiculous pictures which he considers masterpieces; his garrulous wife infuriates him to such a degree that, on the night he dies, he likens her manner of getting into bed to that of an elephant; Grope's landlady, when he moves to finer lodgings, gives a banquet for him and makes her shy, beer-drinking husband give a speech. The tartness of Author Mann's style, his true sense of invention save the book from being purely an imitation and make it salty reading almost...
Last week, after 124 years of stiff competition, came word that the old firms of Pleyel and Erard had merged. Their instruments will henceforth be produced at the Pleyel works (St-Denis). Erard and Pleyel pianos are not the finest made in France (the Gaveau is considered finer). nevertheless they are first-class instruments. Pleyel owns the great modernistic Salle Pleyel in the Faubourg St-Honore...