Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sons of the late famed publisher of the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer; to Mrs. Gladys Munn Amory, of Washington, D. C. Since serving as an aviator in the World War, he has traveled through Russia as foreign correspondent for the World; hunted antelope in Northern Rhodesia; idled at Palm Beach, Paris. She, in 1913, married Charles Minot Amory, Boston social arbiter, graduate of Grpton, Harvard; she divorced...
...After centuries of Athens and Rome, Italy, everlasting heir of all beauty and grief, ceases neither to create nor to suffer, conscious that her wingless victory lies grasped in the palm of her almighty destiny...
Witless of the Japanese proverb, "A grain of rice is riches to a starving man," one Nassib Makaram, leader of Syrian tribesmen, rolled in his palm a grain of white rice. He, Sheik Nassib Makaram, was famed from Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would...
...West Palm Beach. The Commercial Bank & Trust Co. closed its doors, thereby stirring up a run against the Palm Beach Bank & Trust Co. It closed also. But the other six banks of the city met all demands. Merchants strengthened the bank situation by guaranteeing their employes' deposits...
...Palm Beach Girl (Bebe Daniels). Florida real estate isn't so popular just now. Its values were overworked. Likewise Florida movies about the wild and winsome rich have been done and overdone. This is one more about rapid motorboats with the comedy included when the heroine gets seasick. Marvelous scenery and photography helps. They always help. In travel films that's all one looks...