Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afford and actually do afford to do some things not because they pay directly but just because to do so gives us a certain worth while feeling of satisfaction. That is why men wear collars, have their hair cut and shave; and also why girls bob their hair, powder their noses-not to go further into details...
Among the strangest survivals of save acres is the prevalent student practice of carrying lucky coins, lockets, and watch charms. A few men transport combs, knives, and keys whence usefulness has long departed, for the sake of their necromantic properties. Feminine vanity cases and powder compacts are also cherished, perhaps more nor their inspirational than for their thaumaturgie value...
...political friends. "Chief" Markham, as the boys call him, loves his friends, trusts them, lets them run the government. The result is the incubation of corruption in oil and in the so-called Department of Public Health which is so crooked that it even gets graft out of roach powder. Murders, lewd women, drunken revels, coarse dialogue are thrown in to spice the story. The scandals begin to leak out in Washington. Senatorial investigations threaten, but the "Chief" stands by his friends. There is, of course, a woman in the story. A sort of Platonic affection grows up between...
...rooms of the theatre all bear names for the patrons' convenience in making appoint ments. They are the Elizabethan Room (containing porcelain heads in hair dresses from the time of Queen Elizabeth to now), Peacock Promenade, Chinoiserie (women's smoking rooms), Club Room, Hunting Room, Jade Room, Powder Box, Venetian Room, Marie An toinette Room, Colonial Room, Empire Room and Music Room. The auditorium, simulating French Renaissance architecture, is dec orated in ivory, rose-red and turquoise blue. Some 38 years ago, the Atlantic washed onto the shores of the U. S. an entirely insignificant underfed...
...Caution survived harm, however, and realizing his duty to posterity he married an Indian miss named Did-You-Put-Out. That-Camp-fire. And to their first-born son, a direct ancestor of mine, they gave at his mother's insistence, an Indian name. He was called Keep-Your-Powder-Dry Forecast...