Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irresistability of the awful doom is what strikes you. We all know how much the debs would prefer to be educated, instead of just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that she is to do or die. Too few of us accord her the full sympathy she deserves...
...have been picked as the starting backfield against Bates. Of this combination, Putnam alone has been considered sure of his berth in the 1929 Crimson backfield. The veteran University signal-caller is generally considered a smart tactician. During the preliminary practice sessions this fall he has, furthermore, exhibited a stylish brand of running, which, when coupled with his much-improved ability to handle forward and lateral passes and to drop kick, makes him a threat to be reckoned with. He fits neatly into the Harvard attack. Harper is another tried and true letterman, whose line-plunging is well-known...
...historian. Writer White was amazed at many things he saw just above the Rio Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager . . . for reasons best known to himself, has always encouraged the DEFEAT of his own party in Hidalgo county. . . Will the Texas Tammany boys, supported by the illiterate, non-taxpaying Mexican...
...Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer home Mrs. Hert was "hopeful" that the National Committee would pick Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania as her successor as No. 2 driver of the steamroller. Marion Marjorie Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...
...decades ago, when Americanization was word-of-the-hour, a slim, stylish, grey-haired woman with a brisk, dynamic manner and a pleasant, persuasive voice, left the protection of Rittenhouse Square and journeyed across Philadelphia to the foreign quarter to "do her bit." She was Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and wife of Edward William Bok, famed immigrant-publicist. Her problem was obvious. Philadelphia's foreign quarter was and is like any other city's-crowded, ingrown, hostile to the U. S. culture enveloping it, which it cannot understand. Mrs. Bok tried...