Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen her in gay night clubs, where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...
...success of the whole experiment rests in the collective palm of the twelve dropped Freshmen. They can make or break the test tube. This in itself must be a satisfaction compensating for the ignominy attached to their recent intellectual debacle...
...entitled the American-British Improvement Corporation, with a coat of arms showing eagle and lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean type...
...seems fair to give the Mayas the palm for culture existing in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans A comparison with the Incas presents some difficulties, but as Dr. Spinden points out. "The Peruvians had no system of hieroglyphic writing and no carefully elaborated calendar." They were thus unable to conserve intellectual gains. But the Mayas had a well developed system of hieroglyphs, mostly ideographic, that is consisting of abbreviated pictures of the thing intended or of an object associated with...
There is a plot about a trio of vaudeville entertainers who try to crash society at Palm Beach. True love meets a millionaire and matters are amicably concluded. Miss Smith again demonstrates that she can dance, sing and be funny a little better than almost any other comedienne. Mr. Tombes and Mr. Watson, aided by good material, are pretty ridiculous...