Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel it is time for me to burst into your letters columns. I see on page 7 of your issue of Nov. 12 an item which quotes my father as saying: "He feels like I did in 1908, not by any means like I felt in 1912." About 12 years ago my Uncle, Mr. Horace Taft, was distinctly heard by a number of members of the family at the Murray Bay lunch table to say of Tom Shevlin, "H« had himself paged in hotels by a boy waving an envelope like it was a telegram." He denied...
Many of the pieces in Innocent Bystanding have appeared in Mr. Sullivan's column in the World and in the New Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...
...Item, symmetry: for earrings or a single pendant, the teardrop pearl is still fashionable, but for necklaces, bracelets, and tiaras, perfect sphericity is required. Experts know it on sight. Amateurs roll their pearls across a smooth black surface...
...Item, lustre: for which there is neither test nor definition. It is the mellow glow emanating from an unblemished "skin," soft, warm, alive. If pearls are held between the eye and the light, some will show a translucent encircling band about one-fifth the width of their diameter. Such have the finer lustre...
Another provocative item was, "Loans: Oct. 11, 1928, through County Trust Company, 15th Street and 8th Avenue, New York City, $500,000." Chairman Raskob explained, correctly, that "it has been the practice in recent campaigns to resort to this procedure when expenditures run ahead of receipts, as they usually do." The size of the loan thus frankly announced was, however, sensational. To finance the deficit of the 1920 campaign, the Republican party made loans of $600,000 and $167,000 through the Empire Trust Co., of Manhattan...