Word: tes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girls pretty and conceal the looks of pretty girls, so that it is equal for every one, Helen Wills retains the chapeau of which she is godmother. Her own mother, the handsome woman who warned off the Panama, is her "best friend." They go to luncheons and fêtes and their hairdresser together; together they receive the adulation of the public...
...food be extra?totaling perhaps $25. This would eliminate the gluttony at present table d'hôtes; and if a passenger were forced to miss a meal, his economy would console...
...chief witness for the Govern-ment is Elias H. Mortimer, who tes- tified last year before the Senate investigating committee. He testified that he entered into an agreement with Contractor Thompson and an associate (one Black, now dead) to procure hospital contracts for them in consideration of 35% of the profits that they should make. He also declared that he had made an agreement with Mr. Forbes for an equal division of these proceeds between the two of them. He told of giving Mr. Forbes various sums at several times, paying Forbes' traveling expenses on a trip...
...when all France fétes the memory of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, an old woman of Saint Brieuc in Brittany cried : "I want to die like Jeanne d'Arc. France is ruined. I will save her!" She went to the carpenter, begged him to build her a pyre, but he refused. She went home, constructed her a pyre, drenched herself in paraffin, lay down, lit a match, was burned to death...
...social activities of the Club have confined themselves to two small dances, which were held in October and November in the Colonial Club. In addition to these informal dances the Club has held tes dances at the Newman House after the football games. These social gatherings have been the means of acquainting members with one another and of furnishing recreation for the members and their friends...