Word: swanning
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...From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...other alliance was concluded between Edward B. Smith & Co. and Guaranty Co. President Joseph R. Swan, old time Yale footballer, and three other Guaranty officers will become Smith partners. i and the firm will move into the Guaranty ! offices, take over most of the Guaranty organization. In the even course of Smith affairs, entry of the Guaranty partners was ! expected to produce startling changes. Founded in Philadelphia some 40 years ago by the late Edward Brinton Smith, railroad banker, the firm grew slowly until after the i War. Then under a group of young Manhattan partners headed by John Wilson...
...spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain...
...design for a new Rockefeller dime bore the motto "Oily to bed and oily to rise. . . ." The Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch...
...firmament of the Son of Heaven a brilliant new star has risen! Supple as the neck of the swan is the charm of her graceful form. Her black and sparkling eyes, in hours of ease, envelop and thrill that happy mortal allowed to see. O, Nguyen Huu Hao! Beautiful are all thy ways...