Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music blown over dark waters from the frail and lighted decks; niggers were fiddling there, gamblers in tall hats were playing faro, planters and belles and bankers swept down the river; they are gone. ' But who shall say that another age, because it happens to be over, is prettier than our own? The proud boats carried produce as well as gallantry; the niggers who fiddled helped, in their off moments, to carry bales aboard; and when the boats quit the river it was because a new and quicker freight had joined Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico. Some Eastern...
...denied. Ac cording to the account, the management, which had shrewdly established white as symbolic of the cleanliness of foods served by the 3,500 white-clad waitresses in their 109 white-tiled restaurants, is as shrewdly beginning to insert cheer ful green among the white tiles. "Younger and prettier" serving girls are to be hired and are to wear uniforms trimmed with green. "The girls are just the same as the tile," an officer of the company is alleged to have remarked to the Sun. The gayety of color is supposed to conduce to the subconscious happiness...
...logical, certainly the most artistic ending for her glittering career. The author show an ambitious, ruthless woman, frightened by the approach of age and the failing devotion of the king into the most desperate measures for retaining her remarkable domination. While the king amuses himself with younger, prettier women, La Montespan performs the most diabolical, awful sacrifices in the belief that she can thereby hold the fickle monarch; and M. Rolland has woven this intensely dramatic material into a short, but powerful and moving tragedy. The several liberties which he has taken with fact really do, as he declares, "affirm...
...ended not five minutes before this publication seemed for the moment a journalistic miracle. Closer inspection revealed a badly written story of the vaguest and most general character. No mention of the lengths or time of victory was made. Furthermore, the Harvard crew was credited with the smoother, prettier form-a statement arrant in its stupidity...