Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allied Arts Exposition, a giant fashion show displaying (April 15-27) the latest modes in which man adorns the earth for his comfort and amusement. Dominant was the 44th exhibition of the Architectural League of New York. But since architecture is more than, ever a synthesis of many elements - pure design, clients' specifications, construction engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax in Manhattan Architect William Van Alen's plans for the new Chrysler Building...
Meanwhile steel-pipe makers have been whistling through their fingers. Steel is iron mixed with and hardened by carbon. Because it is easier to produce steel than to rid iron of its impurities, steel is cheaper than pure iron. It is also cheaper than-iron or steel alloys, and than copper alloys. But it oxidizes (rusts) many times faster than do those other materials...
...supporting cast is above the average. For pure assinine slap-stick Jack Sheehan and Doris Patston would be hard to beat. Pierce and Harris, however, the skilled dancing team, win the most applause from the audience. Girls, girls, girls, with colorful futuristic settings and gay music, put the finishing touches to a production which is sure to satisfy the musical comedy appetite...
...Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
Rich native merchants and Rajah connoisseurs will pay almost as much for a fair-skinned girl from the vales of Kashmir as for a pure white woman strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities...