Word: harum
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...capital second only to presidents' wives and to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose father was often at loggerheads* with Mrs. McCormick's father. When Miss Hanna first saw Miss Roosevelt, the latter had just "burst upon the world as Princess Alice." Miss Hanna thought Princess Alice a harum-scarum. Princess Alice thought the young lady who presided over the griddle cakes and corned beef hash at Senator Hanna's political breakfasts in Lafayette Square, a superb prig...
...great circus that now bears his name, Barnum was a Yankee, a Connecticut Yankee, to be exact, and many are the tales, of business deals that smack of the wisdom of the Nutmeg state. The reader need have no fear that he may overlook these bits of David Harum, for they are advertised, in true Barnum style, for several pages before and after the transaction...
...caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) were still the U. S. rule for trading in wheat, corn, rye, barley oats and like grains, then Armour Grain Co., or anyone, might play David Harum* to the detriment of farmers, millers or brokers. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture has long sought to keep grain transactions honest; and so Secretary William M. Jardine was "tremendously interested" last week to learn that Banker Edward Eagle Brown of Chicago, as arbitrator, had ordered the Armour Grain Co. to pay $3,000,000 to creditors of the now dissolved Farmers' Cooperative Grain Marketing...
...There is many a story which people like to tell to show that I am a harum-scarum princess. Here are some of them. Long before such things were socially approved, I stepped out into the middle of a ballroom, danced a solo turkey trot, smoked a cigaret. Ladies gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between...
...interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance to be a melting ingenue and Adolphe Menjou with an opportunity to be a hero for once-while remaining a man-about-town. The Goldfish. Constance Talmadge scampers through the picture in her best harum-scarum vein. She traces with not a little sly subtlety the development of the Coney Island piano-pounder who uses one husband after another to advance her social and financial status, till she finally returns to her initial song-plugging spouse, still the same devoted little heart, but this time...