Word: rices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most makers claim a base of rice for their powders. But many a woman hides a red nose with much the same chalk dust that her grandmother used. Her grandmother went to the drugstore, bought chalk drops and crushed them herself. Now she could choose between a multiplicity of powders, scented, exotically labeled, but not far different from the - chalk-drops...
...much concerned with the issue of rice or chalk. It concentrates upon chemical, synthetic dyes. Lemon creams, smelling of tropical fruit groves but actually scented and colored with dangerous chemicals, are hateful to the Federal Trade Commission...
...World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager of the M-G-M studios. She is now working on a film version of The Last of Mrs. Ckeyney...
Rickard. George L. ("Tex") Rickard, Manhattan prizefight promoter, who was indigent when he left Texas years ago, went to Houston in a private car. His opinion was sought on some holes in the glass of an elevator door in the Rice Hotel. They were supposed to be bullet holes made by a Texan impatient for an elevator. Opined Promoter Rickard: "They were made by some fellow with his cane...
...System-surpassed it. The Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power...