Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher Harper's proud announcement that two editions of her book had been exhausted before publication date, but many more looked forward to drinking in another recital of carefully muted chamber music. Many a reverent reader, mindful of the Olympian thunders her Fatal Interview brought down,* doffed his hat before he tiptoed into the audience. But plain readers soon discovered that Wine from these Grapes was a good but by no means a great performance...
Scotsmen, when they asked U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham to address the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution last week, assumed that he would not talk through his high hat. Ambassador Bingham called fervently for pound-dollar pegging, continuing : "I believe it would be desirable if other nations were included, but, if that is not practicable, stabilization should be achieved between ourselves. . . . You may be able to conquer your difficulties alone and so may we, but I do not doubt that with proper understanding and co-operation we may not only protect and further our own interests but may play a magnificent...
...filled with gratitude to the Government. Men in the building industry carry in their hearts a genuine and profound appreciation. I have always been a rank Republican, but I take my hat off to President Roosevelt...
...change fro m "End Poverty," to "End Prosperity," in Sinclair's slogan for California has resulted in a rebuff from Roosevelt which materially damages that picturesque purveyor of political panaceas' chances of election. An entertaining spectacle this, in all its ironic humor, but pertinent to this review only in hat it shows that the administration, sicklied o'er with the pale hue of approaching elections, is making a pathetic attempt to "Turn To the Right." Market students must always bear in mind that "inflation," now in a "potential" state, may at any time become "kinetic...
...after she wrote a report for him on the basis of a month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum was installed as a special adviser. One of the first things she did was to move the millinery department down to the street floor, with the result that hat sales tripled. New departments were organized, floors remodeled, Grand Duchess Marie of Russia installed to run a photography studio. Last week at the president's desk in her walnut-paneled office Mrs. Odlum announced her slogan: "High class but not high hat." Last week Founder Bonwit retired, ostensibly because...