Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brother Pierre. A senior and most revered du Pont is Pierre Samuel du Pont?broad, thick chin; gleaming forehead; ready smile. He is a Wet. About six months ago he took leave of absence to join his protégeé, John J. Raskob, in working for the Democratic party. The rest of the du Fonts are Dry and Republican. A polite fissure among the du Fonts and within G. M. C. was apparent while the campaign was raging. Now that it is over, Pierre du Font's interest is in The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...with decolletage lower behind, higher in front. 5) Trig jackets-many reversible-are especially smart for city and sports. 6) Summer fabrics, very simple for day wear, with a startling revival of bright ginghams and even calicos. 7) Hats are even smaller and sleeker, many brimless and exposing the forehead. 8) Colors, brighter, with contrasting red and black in the ascendant, plus many new shades: pewter, menthe, lucifer, Capudne, Lelong blue and green. . . . 9) Fads red hair, tennis trousers for women, pajamas at luncheon.* naughtily named knee length nightskirts: "Dream of Me," "Alarm Clock," "Midnight Tonight," "Turn Your Head. . . ." French...
...arrived as Dharmadhikari or High Priest the Pundit Vishnu Raghunath Karandikar, representing the Hindu Primate, His Holiness Jagadguru Shankaracharya, who was simultaneously understood to be offering potent prayers for the babe in India. Presently the Goddess of Destiny was invited to enter the birth chamber and inscribe upon the forehead of the newborn child its fate. When a decent interval had elapsed, Pundit Karandikar went in to see what had happened, and clearly beheld upon the infant's brow these prophecies, or rather ordinations of the Goddess: 1.) "She will be an artistic genius, witty and intellectual...
Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
...Phylacteries (little leather boxes), which are worn during certain prayers, one on the left arm, the other on the forehead, by Orthodox Jews in obedience to Deuteronomy, XI, 18: "Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." Among other scriptural writings contained in the tvillim are these: "This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt" (Exodus, XIII, 6), and "What nation is there so great, that hath...