Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm Beach suit; at his left, Senator Pat Harrison, vice chairman...
...from 18 to 23. Six of the girls are married, four engaged. There are more brunettes than blondes, three redheads. Few Rockettes are ravishing, because Markert cares more about legs than looks, but all are ambitious. Voted most likely to succeed in serious dancing was Jean Eckler of West Palm Beach, Fla. Most popular is Muriel Le Count of Jack son Heights...
...without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity" in France-was out to make just such big news...
With all the facilities in the palm of its hand, the university has no excuse for not offering them to the aspiring biochemists it allegedly desires to train...
...that he had once successfully impersonated him before the Senate. Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew it was a dangerous plan, decided to try it anyhow, to satisfy his revenge and political curiosity...