Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying. 'Have you forgotten...
...realized that his ruthless, iron hand actually holds the present Spanish regime together. It is he who sees that all the elections and plebiscites come out right, that the sons of useful Jews are exempt from military service, that the Army does not sprout another successful coup...
...pictures. Banker Morgan liked the first, tense pose, ordered a dozen copies. The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow. A trick of light made the chair arm look like a broad, naked knife in Banker Morgan's hand. Banker Morgan looked at this picture, tore it in shreds...
...Cross '30, C. B. Lakin '30, J. B. Garrison '31, G. C. Holbrook, Jr. '30, as forwards, and E. T. Putnam '30, and S. L. Batchelder '31, on the defense, W. T. Wetmore '30, who played in his Sophomore year, but was ineligible last winter, will also be on hand to augment the wings...
...were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed the peak in risque outspokenness had been attained. But now the landscape is plastered, advertising...