Word: inge
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under 20th century working conditions. Lelong is popular with U. S. buyers. Particularly popular are his three perfumes : "A," for the exotic woman (or the unexotic woman who, acting out of character, is attending an exotic affair); "B," the perfume pour le sport; "C," the delicate scent for the ing...
...thought to the cold, relentless businessman who first exploited good Mother Congo and her Blackamoors as his hirelings, slaves and strumpets. The strumpeteer was King Leopold II of the Belgians (1835-1909), detested uncle and immediate predecessor of beloved King Albert I. Uncle Leopold went wickedly a-travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call...
...York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good use of some of the $500,000 he gave it last winter (TIME...
...Statesmen thought that the Nationalist Declaration will lead to negotiations of the very largest world import, IF, and only if the vast and various armies and "Nationalists" populations are now able to calling achieve a work themselves ing solidarity. Such professed National ists as Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who has a personal army of 195,000 men, are capable of resuming the status of regional dictators they have held in the past...
...Burton Hendrick's studied sense of the dramatic, mostly because of the essential fullness of Page's life before he ever thought of ambassadorship. From cub-reporter in St. Joseph, Mo., he rose rapidly to New York newspaperdom, managed and edited the Forum, and later The Atlantic Monthly?"report-ing and interpreting American civilization." In 1900, as co-founder of Doubleday, Page & Co., he entered into what he was content to consider the culmination of his career?launching a fleet of magazines, publishing books, and devoting much of his time to the advancement of education in the South...