Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doesn't he look well!" has become the stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly...
...everyone remembers, the rich Señorita Mercedes de Castellanos, 47, was courted for several months by the Dictator, who announced his engagement in April, and then publicly broke it off (TIME, June 18) with the explanation that his fiancee had been seen on the floor of the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by two noblemen and that such conduct was "imprudent and inexplicable." Since then the Dictator has refused challenges to duel by the noblemen concerned, Conde de Cemira and the Duque de Almodovar, and has been cut by such great ladies as the Marquesa de Urquijo and the Duquesa...
...Roller skating is encouraged in the stock rooms of large stores that occupy vast areas. Errand and stock boys and girls are equipped with skates, and besides getting around faster, think of the fun! Marshall Field in Chicago started this. In New York we hear it is done at Altman's and at Macy...
...pans, mixed animal fats (ox, hog) with oils (cottonseed, coconut) and lye-then put the mixture to boil. When it had reached a proper consistency, she would have run it off into frames, allowed it to cool and harden. Without much difficulty, she would have made enough soap to stock the White House bathrooms and kitchens for many a month...
Last week, Howard Elliott died. He lived just long enough to see the N.Y., N. H. & H. pay a dividend on its common stock, the first in 15 years, a direct result of his four years (1913-17) of reorganization. But the most tangible evidence of his labor lies in the Northwest. First as president, then as chairman of the board of the Northern Pacific, he watched, encouraged, hastened the development of a vast territory...