Word: gras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks of Tammany is important. At Baltimore, Tammany's dandy lived up to his word that he had "nothing to sell" by not once mentioning Candidate Smith...
Highest reasons of state caused Premier Raymond Nicholas Landry Poincaré to speed, last week, from Paris to Strasbourg. Though the city is chiefly famed for producing pâtés de foie gras and as the place where La Marseillaise was composed, Strasbourg loomed last week exclusively as the political focus of Alsace-Lorraine...
Impressed by the way he conducted himself last summer in Europe, the Mardi Gras Committee of New Orleans last week announced that it had invited glib, dapper Mayor James John Walker of New York to be Lord High Chamberlain of its revels next month. Mayor Walker was reported trying to contrive to accept...
...conclusion that the stimuli which produce those reactions most magnificently show a constantly increasing cheapness and standardization"), "The Motherland," "American Criticism," "The Muse in Our Midst." Unlike Mr. Mencken, Author Nathan seldom sweats or bares his teeth; he dances, like a graceful, surly, clever clown through a loud Mardi Gras of vulgarity...
With the opening of the first full year in its new buildings, the Harvard Business School has made several valuable additions to its teaching staff. A new course in Business History, given by Professor H. S. B. Gras, former Professor in the University of Minnesota, has been added to the curriculum...