Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After six years of experiment and expansion, American Houses, Inc. was ready to put its prefabricated house into limited production April 1, when a $5,000 unit wrapped in Cellophane and tied with a red ribbon will go on display at John Wanamaker's store. The company was promising its first customers delivery by June 1. National Houses, Inc., a competitor, announced that it hoped to have 10,000 prefabricated houses to sell during the next twelvemonth. Though it will be months, perhaps years, before U. S. travelers begin to see prefabricated houses springing up in any numbers along...
...isolated, spurned beneath the victor's heels and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today, while 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...
Society's pageant did not properly start until the intermission when opera glasses were brought out for the annual inspection of the Diamond Horseshoe. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was there, in hair ribbon and diamond stomacher. Goelets, Blisses and Wilsons had their oldtime boxes. In the Morgan box sat Mrs. Herbert Satterlee, Mr. Morgan's sister. With Mrs. Watts Sherman was her granddaughter, Eileen Gillespie, who almost became Mrs. John Jacob Astor III. Missing was old Mrs. Vanderbilt, Society's long-time peeress, and Otto Hermann Kahn, for years the Metropolitan's best friend. Both had died...
...been for him to summon musical reporters and inform them of the singers he has engaged, the operas he intends to produce the coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has always been the same: Gatti settling his great bulk in a swivel chair, fumbling for the ribbon which holds his pince-nez, reading his announcement aloud in slow, painstaking English. When questions were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly closed each such session with the Press. Last week musical reporters were still awaiting their annual summons...
...invisible style-line closure, the Kover-Zip fly, has every practical advantage of the ordinary zipper, and in addition is superior to it from the standpoint of good taste because no metal shows--the units of the fastener are concealed by a grosgrain ribbon that harmonizes with the fabric of the trousers and is guaranteed to outlast the garment...