Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calumet Baking Powder...
Engaged. Ernest du Pont, Wilmington powder man, to Miss Anne Thompson, Johns Hopkins Hospital nurse, who attended him in a recent illness. Divorced two years ago, he has four children, the eldest...
...Cleveland, in four small rooms at the rear of the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Mission, middle aged women and young girls congregated to watch the unrelenting minutes burrow into the future. They wore no lace, no ornaments, not even their wedding rings; they painted not, neither did they powder; for, said one: "The gates of Heaven are not open to the gaudy slaves of fashion...
...today, the world has turned astronomer. All other interests are eclipsed in the face of this singular phenomenon. The shopgiri forgets her gum, the vamp her powder, and the schoolboy his sied. Even the captive student is granted an hour's respite from examinations...
...orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...