Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forever with their high heels on the greens and chattering on the tees. More power to Chicago! The thing should be carried further too. I'm for special women's elevators in office buildings, so a man doesn't get his lungs full of sickening face powder. Seriously I am! And what a blessing it would be if there were roads ' "for women only!" Put all the old hens and nice young things and horn-rimmed stickle-backs and back-seat drivers off on a boulevard of their own and let them ball up their...
...Braggadocians had taken Mr. Sherod from jail and brought him home. Now the scaffold was finished. Now they tied Mr. Sherod's hands and suspended him thereby from the scaffold. Now the Braggadocian guns were loaded, Braggadocian epithets flew, Braggadocian powder burned. Mr. Sherod died by writhes and jerks after a dozen bullets had passed through his dangling body. The Braggadocians smiled grimly at one another and went home...
...Yard cops are powerless. Easier by far is it to move three Packards, twelve Fords, and a baby Renault from the steps of Widener than to move these creatures from the lap of John. They twine febrile arms about him while love clicks the shutter. They spill powder and musk about him while love says, "Dearie, watch the birdie." And like the true gentleman he is, John never grimaces. He merely waits for Monday...
...David as Assistant Dean of the Business School and as Associate Professor of Marketing was received at the CRIMSON last night. Dean David, who resigns after seven years of service to the University, is learning the Business School, in order to become Executive Vice-President of the Royal Baking Powder Company. He will also be Vice-President of the Royal Distributing Company, a member of the Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Baking Powder Company...
...Powder burns stung Il Duce's lips and cheek, the pistol had been fired so close. Yet he interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard...