Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happy lot; they would find little relief from constant anxiety. Imagine the thirteenth day of all thirteen months landing on Friday. Then again, this new calendar may serve as a valuable antidote: if those who now entertain grave apprehensions regarding the number thirteen are still able to enjoy life under the proposed system, the time is at hand when two-dollar bills will no longer be scoffed at, and one match will suffice to light three cigarettes...
...adrift on life's mighty ocean, where each mistake has its cost...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...
...Higher than all but two Manhattan skyscrapers; the Woolworth Building (792 ft.); the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (700 ft . ) . †To keep away air, prevent rust. Such paint is an economical product of so-called red lead (minium, Ph.O...
...Artist Barclay, apostle of scarlet magnitudes, is not so famed as a John Singer Sargent or a Joseph Pennell. But more millions of magazine readers have seen his work than most painters can boast. He "does" the advertisements for Fisher Bodies, Humming Bird Hosiery, Texaco Gas; cover designs for Life, College Humor, Pictorial Review, Country Gentleman. For the shapely, aristocratic, painted heroines of Fisher Body (TIME, Dec. 24, et ante} Artist Barclay receives $1200 each. *1st George Jay (died 1923), 2nd Edwin, 3rd Helen (now Mrs. Finlay J. Shepard, mother of four adopted children), 4th Howard, 6th Anna (Countess...