Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have to admit that the place for a ribbon is around a candy box or the head of a child. Therefore these colored bits of happiness which adorn some of the more collegiate headgear around the Square ought to make you just excited as I, for compared to them most of the other affectations of the parvenues pale into insignificance...
...route the Prince changed from naval togs into a full Guard uniform, clapped a great black busby on his head, and allowed his scarlet tunic to be adorned with the blue ribbon of the Garter and almost obscured beneath a layer of the stars and decorations which he favors most...
...Spelling Board, Vice President of the Non-Smokers Protective League, etc., etc. He wrote the only article that ever appeared in the Atlantic Monthly with illustration-the story of how he reeled 150 yards of silk from a spider in South Carolina and later wove the silk into a ribbon...
Velazquez (1599-1660) because, long ago, he conceived that the plump oval face of a little Spanish prince with beady eyes would almost achieve piquancy if tilted beneath a hat like a black velvet sofa pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of his period, would appear almost slight if mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince...
...Paris was there, in the newest hats, wide-brimmed, made of straw, flowers and ribbon, or woven of felt and silk in crossword puzzle patterns; President Doumergue wore his shiny topper; 250,000 people packed the enclosure; Britishers, brought to the scene by a fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...