Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from this sanguine look ahead, he turned to the present and solemnly, outspokenly startled his audience. ''Our Protestant denominationalism," he said, "with over 150 sects in the U. S., has become utterly obsolete, so far as modern significance is concerned, and is now a public scandal and disgrace...
...Significance. There is a supposition that Nana, Naturalist Zola's novel, includes some Menken escapades. Nana, one of the realest characters of all fiction, lives and breathes lustily for present-day readers while Adah Menken, who lived just as lustily, pulsates feebly in Author Oursler's sentimental brief. Yet whether or not the "spirit" he discusses is more Oursler than Menken, Author Oursler has succeeded in writing the first book about a U.S. figurine no less famed in her day than Isadora Duncan, Aimee Semple MacPherson, Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
...That the packers' branch distributing agencies could, without extra cost, handle other products than meat. At present the entire cost of the branch agencies must be born by meat, which is an economic waste and increases prices to the public...
Gloria Swanson, cinemactress, Europe-bound to see her latest husband, James Henri la Baily de la Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, squealed with delight at a present in her steamer stateroom. Within a gilt-edged, blue-ribboned box, wreathed with laurel, lay an antique bottle labelled: Bethlehem Rye, Guaranteed Twenty Years Old. She sent for charged water, ice, glasses, corkscrew. She held the bottle to the light to admire its tawny contents. The bottle was empty...
Frau Eckener awaited her husband with a birthday cake, candles, homely gifts. Said she: "My very best present for him is to make sure that he can sleep undisturbed. He appreciates rest more than anything else...