Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orleans, Nashville, Denver and Fall River had 16 or more. Southern cities usually have higher death-rates because of the higher mortality among Negroes. Akron was the banner health city of the year, reaching the record low mark of 7.5, and taking the palm from Seattle, which however was still second with 9.6. Fort Worth and Milwaukee also hung up good marks...
Napoleon designed the uniform to be worn by members, which consists of "a dark green claw-hammer coat covered with embroidered palm leaves, trousers of the same hue, a cocked hat with green feathers, a court sword...
...love to touch. All you have to do is touch it and make a wish. Liquor, ladies and lullabies come romping in. The only difficulty was that Raphael got only so many wishes to the inch. Each wish shrunk the skin. When it reached the size of his palm he was to be introduced socially to the Grim Reaper. Before that occurred he got religion and went back to his red-lipped maiden of earlier, poorer days...
...last few years it seems to have been the accepted axiom that Yale graduates are to be accorded the palm over Harvard men in American literature. It is an axiom with which I disagree--unless a more prolific output and more vociferous claquing can be weighed in the balance with quiet, individual progress and depth of tone. Mr. Pulsifer, as a Harvard graduate, comes to my rescue very opportunely...
...Secretary Hughes' offer to participate in a solution of the reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...