Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan-Los Angeles route is only one of many that the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., plans to cover by train & plane. For example, a daytime airline will operate between Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not neglected will be Palm Beach, New Orleans, Dallas, San Francisco, Spokane, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, etc. "I can foresee where we may be using a thousand ships or more within a few years," said Walter Sands Marvin of Hemphill Noyes & Co., one of the 19 directors of Transcontinental Air Transport...
...some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most imperiously for him who would dare. And if fruit and sugar production fails to fill the craving for the Caribbees, still there is sunshine, and white flannels for the asking, and doubtless castanets and the habanera. Who would quibble when Cuba offers herself to the habitue...
...homes (at Hastings-on-Hudson, Palm Beach; Patricia Island, Quebec; Manhattan) are full of flowers, sofas and pictures of two people. One of these is his wife, beautiful Billie Burke. The other is his daughter Patricia who is idolized by her father...
...paintings was called Here Am I. Another was Man's Last Pretense of Consummation to Indifference. A third was titled Behold, I Have Graven Thee on the Palm of My Hand. Remembering much solid and conservative work which had previously been signed by Charles Sims, remembering, too, the portrait of George V which Painter Sims had executed at their request and which they had been forced to decline because it gave the monarch spindle legs, several of the Hanging Committee thought it would be kinder not to show these last ridiculous and dreadful pictures. Charles Sims had written twice...
...pensive grocer sat, his chin snuggled in his palm, at the rear of the Cincinnati convention hall where this past week the American Wholesale Grocers' Association was holding its yearly meeting. Before him on the convention floor wholesalers rose in diverse and unpredictable fashion to explode with the troubles of their business. On the platform President J. H. McLaurin of the association stormed at his constituents. They must fight together to preserve themselves, he cried; they must support the individual store keeper; they must oppose the chain store...