Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad that someone owes me something," grimly replied the neat old detective. "I wonder what I'm going to use for money...
...diggers of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art found the mummy, swathed in heavy wrappings of linen, of a young man of Thebes named Wah. Wearing a gilded and painted mask, a red linen shawl, the mummy of Wah made a bright and cheerful appearance in its clean, neat bandages. The diggers took it back to the museum where it was placed on exhibition...
Slowly but surely the trend in neckwear changes from year to year, and the predominating shift for the forthcoming year seems to be from the neat, all-over patterns of last season to larger and more clear spaced designs. Stripes are going to be worn in the greatest number this season decause of the harmony they bring with either a plain suit or a striped one. Rep Ties, distinguished by their ribbed surface, are favorites, while the Macclesfield, always a winter favorite is still proper for more formal town suits. Plain color knits and wool ties which go so well...
...Long Island town is made up almost exclusively of people who can afford not only to buy neat Georgian houses set in landscaped parks but also to commute between them and the metropolis. We say "almost exclusively" because of one section which is called "the Valley" and deserves the name for social as well as geographical considerations. Here live the negro families, as well as the nouveaux arrives: Italians, Poles, Greeks: forming an untouchable world apart but a convenient object for the charitable inclinations of the towns-women...
...make their name famed by putting free Bibles in hotels and hospitals. Since then Bible-giving has become their one big job. They have given away 1,300,000 at an average cost of $1, today boast that sooner or later they find donations to fulfill all requests with neat volumes now bound in whiskey-proof keratol. Until last week all three founders were still active in business and Gideon affairs. Then Death came to Samuel Eugene Hill, 70, in Beloit, Wis. To the funeral went Insurance Man Knights, 83, of Wild Rose, Wis., and John H. Nicholson...