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Word: gorgeous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing her tall figure, concealing her face, and, in its upturned brim that circled her shapely head, forming the semblance of a halo, that gave her the air of one of the saints or angels that, in color, looked down from the gorgeous memorial windows on every hand. . . ." Actually the two-and-one-half columns showed a degree of restraint. Miss Devereux has been known to devote four columns to a wedding or ball, 16 columns to a day's social news. To her, debutantes are "rosebuds," a dining table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...choice snakes, which were not stolen from the Lowell House dance two weeks ago, may still be obtained by applying to A. W. Todd '35, Lowell P-32. They are of gorgeous colors: reds, blues, oranges and violets, and cost but $.50. There are also some knotted and twisted lamp posts which make attractive decorations. They cost $1. At the recent House elections, E. K. Salls '34, Todd, and A. D. Cadman '35 were elected to the House Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Snakes For Sale | 3/29/1933 | See Source »

...fair opened in Manhattan this week. From Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan came the merchants and the craftsmen. Their wares were new, bright, polished, gorgeous. Transportation was for sale. Better and cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All Change! | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...usual last summer the gorgeous yacht Lyndonia dominated the crowded little harbor at Camden, Me. But for the first season in many years the yacht's owner, aging, ailing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, did not dominate the Camden social scene. He remained at home, out of sight. Steam was kept up for 24 hours a day; but the Lyndonia and her crew of 38 made only occasional trips to Portland, Publisher Curtis' birthplace, so that he might go to the dentist. Maine folk and summering Philadelphia socialites alike spoke kindly of "poor old Mr. Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lorimer for Curtis | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Thursday found the Roving Reporter telling of his new colleague, Sarah, the office cat. Hannibal, however, does not care for Sarah. Friday and Saturday were gorgeous days and the vigorous Rover interviewed two personalities for his versatile column which has now taken a permanent place on the editorial page of the Herald-Traveller. The editors used to hide the Rover's fantasies in the remote corners of the financial page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roving Reporter of Herald-Traveller Graduated From Yale In 1928--Hannibal, Office Mouse, Is Inspiration of Column | 10/26/1932 | See Source »

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