Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lyon's Tooth Powder have believed that the purpose of a dentifrice is to encourage the regular daily brushing of the teeth. . . . For sixty years the pleasing wintergreen flavor* in Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder has made new friends and held old ones to the habit of daily brushing. . . . A dentifrice should provide only the necessary cleaning qualities to remove the sticky coating from the teeth without injuring the enamel. . . . If you are confused about the care of your teeth, your dentist will corroborate the verdict of sixty years. . . ." Alert readers of the Saturday Evening Post, eager...
Colonel Nelson was an able and conscientious editor. His paper was a paper of "ideals"-none more so. His habit of printing a great deal of miscellaneous but accurate information about science, invention, exploration, literature, made the Star a sort of university extension for boys and girls on Kansas and Missouri farms. Nothing that he could do, while he lived, to make it a better paper, was left undone. The Star repaid his efforts with about $20,000,000. "He shared with Frank Munsey" commented the New Republic "the extraordinary respect for art which is sometimes found among those...
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS- Helen Hayes proffering a most engaging interpretation of Barrie's Maggie Shand. AT MRS. BEAM'S-Strange doings in a stuffy English boarding house when a boarder appears with a habit of eating females. CRADLE SNATCHERS-A wicked week-end party on which the hostesses are middle aged and the young men still in college...
...tournament. Jean Borotra of France won the singles, sweeping past Howard Kinsey. Paired with Richards, Kinsey lost the doubles to Jacques Brugnon and Henri Coehet, champion of France, 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6. Richards played very badly. Both he and Kinsey showed a tendency, indeed, a habit, to serve double faults and to volley from the service line...
...sale in London: two Rembrandts, one a landscape at ?1,550, one a portrait of Shah Jehan, one-time Emperor of Hindustan at ?680. Art-man Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, July 5) snatched them, as is his habit. Two drawings by Da Vinci were taken by Thomas Agnew and Sons...