Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...didn't know where I was. I didn't know my own name. When I looked out of the window at the landscape it looked dark and unfamiliar. Nobody will ever know how I struggled with myself to remember things. It took me 48 hours before I could win back enough reason to know I was Gene...
...Bernard loved the valleys, Benedict the mountains, Francis the towns, Dominic the populous cities"-but the sisterhood established in St. Dominic's name, lead solitary, meditative lives, hearing not even overtones of the thronging metropolis. Last week, at Menlo Park, this renunciation of the world began with the dedication of the chapel by San Francisco's famed Archbishop Hanna. With special mass and a Feast of the Dedication the nuns entered into their new home. Plain chant and the mellow chiming of bells echoed from the vaults. The ceremonies over, the portals of the cloister were sealed. Henceforth...
Chanel. The fame of Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel has waxed since the War. Sweaters have made her name and her fortune, the light, boyish sweaters which form the sports costume of many an American and English woman. The story of Gabrielle is shrouded in mystery. Some say she is of Basque origin, the daughter of a peasant. Others declare her youth was spent in Marseilles, where the jerseys of sailors gave her the idea for the emancipated woman's golfing costume. Even today she is something of an enigma to gossip-loving Paris. "Coco" Chanel is not beautiful...
Premet. More than 1,000,000 women are said to have worn the boyish black gown, with white collars and cuffs, which went by the name of La Garconne. It was the House of Premet which invented La Garconne to ride the wave of the novel's popularity. Madame Charlotte, the present head of the house, is herself one of the most beautiful women in Paris, with mauve hair which has an interesting history...
Equipped with Frederick O'Brien's book bearing this name, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when...