Word: oaks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next evening, to the oak-paneled throne room of Holyroodhouse, where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared...
...ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this cañon a dozen years ago-the kilns and a score of houses are deserted and overgrown with poison oak and empty save for bats and snakes and a few broken tables and benches. (A considerable enterprise-over 300 men were employed there.) No one goes there now. We were startled the first time to find standing on a floor in a dim corner, the portrait of an old lady...
...familiar uses of the sofa, such as long talks, love-making and sleep, was a minor worry to furniture manufacturers long before 1929. A major worry was the fact that efficient mass production of automobiles gave buyers more for their money than they could get in walnut or fumed oak. In the 1920s automobiles displaced furniture as "Public Want No. 2" (No. 1-necessities of food and clothing) and contributed to the decline in furniture sales which began in 1927 after an all-time peak of $800,000,000 the preceding year. Other main cause was the downward curve...
...wife and daughter. In 1926 they realized $3,000,000 by selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales of $13,626,000. Last year it made...
...will now be re-written to suit a "new and entirely different persona''ty." According to Louis B. Mayer, she will be a comparatively unknown brunette from Worcester, Mass., named Rita Johnson who won recognition on Broadway this season in George M. Cohan's Fulton of Oak Falls. Miss Johnson thereupon declined the role...