Word: sans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the inter-city bidding for the G. O. P. Convention, last December in Washington, persons who visited the various headquarters were struck by the easy cheerfulness of Kansas City's representatives, in contrast to Detroit's anxious gogetters, Cleveland's cautious calculators, San Francisco's determined loudspeakers, Chicago's rooster-boosters. For a small city, Kansas City has extraordinary savoir-faire, and much more civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens...
...Norma Talmadge's husband will be there too-fleshy Joseph M. Schenck, the cinema producer (United Artists). He is a Hooverite from California. Another California Hooverite, Lawyer John L. McNab of San Francisco, has been chosen to stand up and nominate Candidate Hoover...
Financier George P. Fiske of San Antonio...
Copperman Daniel C. Jackling of San Francisco...
Steaming in through San Francisco's Golden Gate, last week, came the President McKinley, bearing a petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two. Resting an elbow on the ship's rail and cuddling her small chin in a pensive palm, she gazed at Las Papas, those twin, majestic mountains called "The Breasts." Then, having admired the view, Fraulein Clarenore Stinnes coolly turned to confront excited reporters...