Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...window to paint at all. Already she had developed a style. She wanted to paint the mythical world of 1900 (eight years before she was born), when ladies wore feather boas and bright feathers in their hats, when gentlemen had whiskers and drank champagne. Because she was much prettier than any model she could afford, she painted herself...
...unrepentant backslider from the start getting the worst of it in a fight with Apache students. Myron jumped in, was both delighted and distressed to discover he liked righting. That summer he let his hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began to have his doubts about mission morality. In this tormented state he set off to unburden himself to Mr. Butler. Instead he unburdened himself to a strange Indian girl in an empty cabin during...
...years, married Governor Alston of South Carolina, and in 1812 disappeared mysteriously at sea on her way from Charleston to New York. For years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery for news of her ship. Also on view was a portrait of an even prettier woman, widowed by Aaron Burr: Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, painted by Ralph Earl while he was in prison for debt. Though the Burr-Hamilton duel occurred in 1804, handsome Mrs. Hamilton lived half a century after it, died in New York...
...still lacking an army, becomes a factor of might once more." THE LOCARNO PACT was prettied up in "The Spirit of Locarno" by being tied with what was called "blue ribbon, the color of the Blue Bird of Happiness, the color of peace." Supplemental Locarno accords were made even prettier with a Maypole effect achieved by intertwining ribbons in the colors of the signatory states. Inevitably this lush, pre-Depression spirit gave way to the spirit of today's hard-boiled pacts...
...Make yourself as feminine looking as you can. Go in for a lot of frills, furs, ruffles, and parasols. Always put everything you have into your work to put it over. . . . Don't take off your panties; it makes a girl's figure look prettier to have those little gadgets...