Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situations. . . . They have talked about a red-blooded attitude on the part of Canada They have chosen their ground well, because, if there is one thing above another that the honorable gentlemen are good at, it is jingoist pronouncements, more particularly when they relate to the United States. But may I say to my honorable friends opposite it is not a red-blooded attitude that is needed at the present moment so much as a cool-headed attitude, and a cool-headed attitude is the attitude which this Administration has taken with regard to all tariff matters from the time...
...appeal. Needed is $1,000,000 and: "Naturally . . . there must be a few gifts of $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000 and many of $5,000 and upwards. . . . To enable the school's friends to make such gifts a program has been worked out so that subscriptions may be made payable over a period of five years. . . ." Such big-figured talk dismayed most young alumnae-solicitors with modest-salaried brothers and husbands. But they set bravely to work for the cause of genteel education. To elicit contributions they prepared an inventory of Spence's educational assets...
Particularly pleasing to careful mothers throughout the country is Spence. Since its founding it has remained Manhattan's strictest, most fashionable boarding school. Preparatory School youths who telephone Spence inamoratas find they may not speak to them. The pupils who take their exercise on Fifth Avenue or through Central Park are chaperoned with utmost vigilance. Whether teaching Shakespeare or speaking to her Chinese butler, Thomas, or playing with her two Pekinese, Miss Spence always used to insist upon "tone." Her purpose was "to develop a perfect gentlewoman, intellectually firm, and having, poise, simplicity and graciousness." The new trustees...
...publish the latest models" supplied each month by 17 tip-top Parisian couturiers, including. Chanel, Lanvin, Poiret, Jane Régny, Lucile, Pre-met, Lenief, Louiseboulanger, Nicole Groult, Worth, Paquin, Jenny, Drecoll-Beer, Redfern, Doeuillet-Doucet, Philippe et Gaston, renée. Said the Ladies' Home Journal for May: "Our patterns are not inspired by Paris, they are not adapted from. Paris; they are actually designed, created and shown in the salons of the French haute couture," Once upon a time-Wartime-the Journal conducted a campaign for U. S. styles by U. S. designers for U. S. women...
Eagle-eyed hotel proprietors in newly popularized Antibes and Juan-les-Pins watched the Morgan yacht, too, for Mor gan yachts are newsworthy and news may be made into publicity for budding resorts. And though yachts seldom-have any religious significance, churchmen throughout the world wondered about the Morgan yacht. For on it was Cosmo Gordon Lang, bachelor Archbishop of Canter bury, and where the Archbishop went was important...