Word: pined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleanor Boardman used to be the Eastman Kodak girl. On the backs of magazines she rested, smiling dreamily, in fields of daisies, wearing a picture hat. You saw her in drug-store windows and on billboards with pine trees or mountain peaks or salt waves, canyons, and, of course, cameras for a background. She had grown up and gone to school in Philadelphia and studied painting and interior decorating because she wanted to be able to do something. She had been trying to get in the film business as an art director when she took her first role...
...husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles. By its committee the House was asked to increase tariff rates on these building materials. From the free list brick was made dutiable at $1.25 per 1,000. A tax of 8¢ per 100 Ib. was laid on cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, also of Oregon, saw that it got what...
...Dedication of a Pine Tree to Diana...
...days last week, 18 men, professionals all, strode in quartets and pairs over the fields of Moortown, England. Very seriously they went from Windyridge to Punchbowl, from Lone Pine to Spinney. On the second day, long before the last of them reached Home, which was the name of Moortown's 18th hole, the people that were following them knew that the British had won the Ryder golf cup. It was big news. The U. S. had been expected to win as it won two years ago.* On the first day, when the foursomes were played...
...Crimson baseball forces will engage the University of Maine nine in the first home game of the season this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field. It will be the first game of the year for the Pine Tree State players, while the Crimson, fresh from its Southern trip, should be well prepared to meet the Northerners...