Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designed and furnished by Ginger and her mother, the Rogers house is equipped with standard Hollywood conveniences of tennis court, bird's-eye view, projection room, outdoor bath, and such eccentric Hollywood conveniences as a built-in soda fountain. Ginger enjoys making herself chocolate sodas behind the fountain, but goes around to sit properly in front of the counter to drink them. In her studio, she makes portrait sketches and sculptures...
...Renaissance, the first of four compact little books each of which furnished a Baedeker guide to principal masterworks and graceful, serious essays in handily numbered paragraphs on the artists of each great Italian school. To U. S. boarding school girls abroad in well-chaperoned quest of charm, these became standard vade mecums. In 1900 prospering Mr. Berenson bought a villa near Florence and settled there for life...
...monopoly of German news photography has made him one of his country's richest men. He sells more than a million Hitler portraits a year. His Hitler pictures range from miniatures to 8-by-12-foot posters which sell for 1,050 marks ($420). For ordinary newspictures his standard price to German publications is 20 to 25 marks, but U. S. rights to a particularly fetching photograph of der schöne Adolf sometimes bring as much as $250. Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann is not the only gainer by his deal with his great & good friend: Adolf Hitler well knows that...
...Marx Brothers pictures, Harpo (real name: Arthur) Marx, 45, makes standard practice of bounding like a bandersnatch after pretty blondes. He married (1936) a pretty brunette, Cinemactress Susan Fleming. Year ago the Marxes took in an infant on approval, last week legally adopted him. His name: William Woollcott (after their good friend Alexander Woollcott, devoted Marxist...
...self-effacing tycoon who sprang this surprise was Walter Patton Murphy, a 66-year-old bachelor. A onetime railroad brakeman and fireman who became rich by inventing and manufacturing corrugated steel freight-car ends, Mr. Murphy heads three corporations (including Standard Railway Equipment Co.), owns the fabulous estate of the late William V. Kelley in Lake Bluff near Chicago, a cattle ranch in California, and a $1,000,000 square-rigged yacht. He is a good friend of James Roosevelt. Mr. Murphy is not so well known as his estate or his yacht, and the university had to look...