Word: hamiltone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamilton Fyfe, famed "most traveled editor," author of The Fruit of the Tree, threw up his job as editor of the Daily Herald of London last week, took passage for Australia, declared: "I'm going back to vagabondage...
...thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen's man for approximately $260,000, the elegant watchers burst into applause. Romney's Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia brought $60. And Van Dyke's Infant Bacchanals brought $15. The applause of the patrons of Christie was quite in the best tradition. It has always been the habit of the fashionable world to applaud the picture...
...Company, Advertising Agents. Needless to say, the Batten Company made Mr. Ford's alleged statement an indictment, not of advertising, but of Mr. Ford. "Armstrong," the Batten ad went on, "is mentioned, and you think of beautiful patterns and colors of linoleum for every floor in the house. Hamilton is the name of a watch so accurate that railroad men largely favor it. Maxwell House is that fine old coffee served by southern aristocracy in the halcyon days 'befoh de wah.'" But "Ford?" Of what, asked the Batten Company, did the name Ford make you think...
...parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School for Scandal; George III and Queen Charlotte...
...onion industry or of modern fashions in holiday-making. Last week, after a 50-year struggle with transportation, the islanders announced that they would have, not automobiles to bury the scenery in pulverized coral from the roads, but a discreet little third-rail electric railroad, linking St. George, Hamilton and Somerset Ferry. The Bermuda Railway Co. Ltd. was careful to add that its trains would have trailers, for baggage and bicycles." Die-hard Bermudans nevertheless shook their heads. "Alas," said they, "and then it will be freight cars, milk trains, grade crossings, Progress...