Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the raw material for felt hats is the little animal with the long ears and the reputation for timidity and fertility. The straw hat lacks a romantic legendary origin, but includes in its ranks probably the world's most expensive hat-the Panama-handwoven from fibres of palm leaves in Ecuador and priced up to $500. Knox sells about a half dozen a year of the $500 variety...
...staging the story, for which Jews have been reviled through the centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant...
...large man in the last high-backed chair. Attention is fastened by his breadth of black-gowned shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior member of the Court...
...White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat in its town instead of Palm Beach last month, Helen Morgan went by plane from Manhattan to climb upon the inevitable piano, stimulated by the applause of many notables. When she had sung, Joe Frisco capered, W. C. Fields was called from his balcony seat to tell a story, a Warner brother took a bow, silence...
...below), shows her wearing the collar of an officer in the Legion of Honor, while across the scarlet bosom of her mess jacket dangle the British D.S.O.; the Star of Mons, the Cross of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm...