Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol?presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket?to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed...
Mrs. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston was featured in a Hupmobile advertisement. A description of her said: "She adores horses, motor cars, and motor boats. . . . Peel of London makes her riding boots, and Nardi her habits. . . . Her favorite luncheon place is the Voisin where she always has a certain corner table. . . . They...
Duchess of Flights. Intimates of Mary du Cauroy, 63, Duchess of Bedford, received her telegrams one morning last week: "Off for India. Expect to be back in a week." By the time recipients had their word from this "duchess of flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker...
Housewives who buy in the package in stead of off the carcass will be certain of cut, cleanliness and quality. And the manufacturer will have taken another step toward making the burden of salesman ship weigh even more lightly upon the retailing shoulder.
After the War he had $200. He borrowed $300 from his fiancee, $600 from friends of his father, $19,000 from Brooklyn bankers, started putting up small houses in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn suburb. His carpentering and plastering employes mostly came to work in their automobiles. Mr. Chanin arrived via bicycle. He...