Word: flagg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abby-Delight was eldest of a big New England brood. Her father, Samuel Flagg, ruled his family with the same dour thrift he used on his millworkers. Abby-Delight's one taste of freedom was a year at Abbot's Female Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually...
...Rose Tree Hunt Club, Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond's Fairbanks II, ridden by Carroll K. Bassett, fell at a brush jump and broke his neck. Three days later at the same jump, the same thing happened to Kendal Boy, owned by Fairfield Osborn Jr., ridden by Stanley Flagg...
...Hearst Cosmopolitan this month printed a drawing of Mrs. Roosevelt with rosebud lips opposite a most unflattering portrait of Lou Henry Hoover, both by able Portraitist James Montgomery Flagg. Macfadden's touching Babies Just Babies, edited by Mrs. Roosevelt, was born last week...
...telegram from the Realsilk Hosiery Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that the Realsilk Hosiery Company has never seen Mr. Lewis...
...criticism of the college girls may have deserved rebuke but not such a savage onslaught as in the letter under the caption "Flagg Flayed'' (TIME, April...