Word: rococo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days before, in the rococo legislative chamber of Iowa's capitol at Des Moines, all five Governors and representatives of four others had chewed stogies while tousle-headed Milo Reno, the rampaging Des Moines insurance man who fomented the Farmers Holiday movement, read off the list of his demands for agriculture. Hating Secretary Wallace and the AAA as a farmer hates a drought, Reno had asked for a farm code which would remove agriculture from Wallace's supervision, put it entirely under the NRA. Each farmer would be licensed to sell only his proportion of the domestic...
...advertisements of 1883 are reprinted: a rococo display of Colgate & Co., one for "The Only Genuine Vichy" (both advertisers today), Ausable's "Popular Horse Nail." and a "Combined Sofa & Bath Tub. The Common Sense Invention...
Across the top of Grit's front page is the design which has been there since its first year, a rococo drawing of two pudgy cherubs having a tug-of-war with a long banner lettered GRIT. Each cherub has a quill pen behind his ear. Around the shoulders of one is slung a pastepot. The other carries a pair of shears. Strewn about the background are stacks of books, a globe, a telescope on a tripod, a gear wheel and an anvil (presumably symbolizing business & industry...
...News said had been said by Walter Walker, retiring Democratic State Chairman and hard-hitting publisher of the Grand Junction Sentinel. Chairman Walker had made a speech in behalf of Governor William H. Adams before the Jane Jefferson Club, women's political organization, in Denver's rococo Brown Palace Hotel. Part of his speech, as reported by the News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully thwarting the Governor's chances of renomination. Mr. Walker's sentences bristled with epithets reminiscent of Denver's newspaper wars: "vulture," "rattlesnake," "vilest man who . . .", "public enemy," "slimy...
...title page of Pictorial Review, on each sheet of its letterhead, is a rococo device: a scroll with the numeral "13" and a pencil, surrounded by a wreath. That trademark was adopted by a German named William Paul Ahnelt shortly after he founded Pictorial Review 32 years ago. It symbolized the $13 capital with which he started his dress pattern business upon coming to the U. S. Last week Founder Ahnelt. 67, sold his magazine, long rumored "for sale," but for how much more than $13, he did not reveal...