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...That knife", and he pointed to the sheath in his stocking. "It's a Scotch ornament, or," and he scowled ominously, "for reporters who are not careful of the truth. I don't like reporters and I don't receive even the big ones, but I like to encourage young fellows on down the road. I suppose I am by now the old generation, and my ideas are different but the Scotch of me is still there, and my heart is right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I'm the Only One o' Its Kind in the Wurruld" Says Sir Harry Lauder-Scotch Humorist Talks of American People | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

...that eminence-and it is still high- Cincinnati has drooped, malnourished industrially. She has become draggled and dirty.* The bright ornaments that are her hospitals and colleges have only accentuated her drabness. The new union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Queen City | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Gleaming, silent, a grey limousine crossed the huge square before the House of Parliament at Budapest last week, and drew up at the massive portal. A flunkey opened the door and out stepped a man clad all in black. Four blazing diamond brooches held in place the sole ornament of his costume, a green sash across his breast. He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Black Archduke | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Tell the public" he whisper" that Bob done his best. It was a mean trick. Why that little tree never did no harm It was a ornament to the community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOB LAMPOON LAMENTS LOSS OF ELM TREE "30 FOOT HIGH" | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

Charles Sims, associated with the Royal Academy, studied with Jules Lefebyre and Benjamin Constant, acquired a precise and elegant technique, and developed, by painting the cold noses of aristocrats and the torsos of the wives of trade-kings, a satiric turn of mind that would have made him an ornament to the House in the days of Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield. Two years ago he painted a picture of King George. The monarch's little legs protruded from a dandiacal bouquet of ribbons and stars, ermine and furbelows; his wan, overbred features looked down like a face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rug | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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