Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opened momentously at Paris, last week, the Spring and Summer salon of many a great couturier. No vulgar "fashion display," they permitted only a discreet preview by connoisseurs. Finally connoisseurs in the pre-know could tick off certain Parisian germs of fashion sure to flower into world trends...
...pre-reformation sect founded circa 1170 by the followers of Peter Waldo, Lyonese merchant who gave away his wealth to the poor, taught voluntary poverty...
Armour & Co. (who last week announced that it would sell its stockyards properties as it had in 1920 agreed with the Government to do)-$538,175.-Pre-vious year-$8,148,570. That great difference of almost $7,500,000 developed in spite of Armour & Co.'s doing practically $900,000,000 worth of business last year and $750,000,000 in 1926. It happened because of unusually difficult business conditions in South America...
...Valley finances, did go to Philadelphia ? hastily. He was venerable Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 79, head of Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. in Manhattan. In Florida for winter's holiday, he risked no contretemps but took train in time to hearten by his pre ence at the meeting President Edward Eugene Loomis of the Lehigh Valley...
...After pre-war naturalism and the succeeding expressionism had disappeared, the young Germans found themselves without a unifying literary style. "Style is the result of a movement." Mr. Mann explained, "and in France the younger generation believed that search for a common goal was sufficient to create a movement, surrealism...