Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madame Rubinstein is among the most important, most fashionable of U. S. beauty specialists. In her bizarre, red and yellow shop in East 57th Street, Manhatten, she displays many a cosmetic product made of water lilies. To the skeptical she offers a tour of inspection at the Long Island factory. Here she would exhibit row on row of half-opened water lilies, kept fresh until the exact moment when their essence may be impounded into creams, powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud...
...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...
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...
...Betty Hanna" granddaughter of Mark, is Washington's (D. C.) most successful young business woman. Her shop, the Betty Hanna, numbers many a patron of wealth and distinction. Great was the distress, therefore, of fashionable Washington when it learned, last week, that Mrs. Richard Porter Davidson, alias shopkeeper Betty Hanna, had been robbed of jewels worth $20,000. Her Negro gardener was suspected...
Team No. 37?Charlotte Kush, home girl, no salary; Dominick Laperte, brake shop hand, $30. Prize money...