Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church to that? . . ." Nellie Melba (Mrs. Nellie Porter Armstrong), as everyone knows, invented her professional name, using the first letters of her native Melbourne. Florence Mary Wilson, a compatriot, did the same with "Australia," dubbed herself Austral shortly before she made her debut at London's Covent Garden. That was seven years ago. Since then, in England and the U. S., she has won great applause in concerts, oratorios, operas...
Whether it is smart to drink, or not smart not to drink, or smart to have a private bar, or not smart not to have one, was not explicitly stated by Publisher Conde Nast's smartchart House & Garden, in the September issue of which, with artful photographs and over the captions "TO PROMOTE A PLEASANT PASTIME . . .DECORATION ENTERS A NEW FIELD," appeared the following descriptions...
Borah on Zion. Most potent of Jewish demonstrations last week was a meeting of 25,000 (including many a Gentile) who jammed Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and roared approval of a tactful telegram read on behalf of President Herbert Hoover (see p. 11). Slouching forward to keynote from the platform came famed Friend-of-Oppressed-Peoples William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Said...
Egypt. Every afternoon last week fat King Fuad of Egypt took his usual garden ride on one or the other of his two favorite mules. Unperturbed, His Majesty read that Jews in Cairo had set upon and beaten an Arab "nearly to death"-the only racial disturbance reported in his realm...
Idaho, in the course of his Jewry v. Islam speech at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (see p. 26), said: "Generally, when I do not reflect, I say what I think...