Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than a thousand ladies were presented to Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace, last week, at the first two Courts of the present London season. The 22 U. S. citizenesses who curtsied low before the King-Emperor, rose, glided two steps to the right, and curtsied to the Queen-Empress were...
...very small man with his hat pulled over his eyes sat on a wooden bench smoking a cigaret. Near him three or four gentlemen wearing badges were arguing in low voices; one was thumbing the pages of a rule book. Around the bench and the arguing gentlemen several thousand people shuffled and murmured. Suddenly one of the badge-wearers stepped forward and said to the little man: "All right, Mr. Jurado, you can drop it out two club's lengths." The little man smiled, got up, and placed at a spot indicated to him by the officials a golf...
...years hence our export business will not equal our total business of today. Toward Henry Ford, Mr. Raskob exhibited the greathearted attitude of modern big business: "It is important to our country that Mr. Ford succeed. He controls so many sources of raw material and specializes in low-priced cars which are essential and important that if he were not in the business, the economic progress of our country would suffer. It is an actual fact that this progress depends in no small measure upon Ford being in the field of production." Then, with what might have been either sarcasm...
...loved the man all these years, and that it is her fault he and his village have become so disgustingly prosperous. She attempts atonement, which is completely misunderstood by her inferior. Author Forster is at his best in interpreting the impossibility of spiritual understanding between high and low born...
AFTER Lorelei Lee has married Henry Spoffard and become a family woman in a small way, she settles down to give a waiting world the low down on Dorothy, the tart brunette who sang bass in the earlier story. She traces Dorothy's education from her childhood in a carnival company to New York and the Follies and eventually to the altar (twice...