Word: tude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Magda Dimitrescu was also at the sta tion. She is not really a buxom girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...
Paris. In the sale of the Michel Levy collection, Fragonard's Terrace Villa Réals brought 275,000 francs; Farmhouse, 115,000 francs; Head of a Philosopher, 415,000 francs. Watteau's Étude pour la Famille brought 260,000 francs; Enchanted Island, 475,000 francs; Enseigne de Gersaint, 470,000 francs. Twelve still life canvases by Chardin brought prices ranging from 26,000 francs to 220,000 francs, while his self-portrait reached 126,000 francs. Latour's Portrait of the Painter Silvestre went for 140,000 francs. Per-roneau's Portrait...
President Thayer of the A. T. & T., in announcing its intention of suing violators of its patents, took the atti tude that the radio broadcasting is at present in a chaotic state and needs to be stabilized through centralized con trol. The propriety of leaving it to Congress to determine the future status of radio entertainment of the public was admitted. The A. T. & T. felt, however, that it is in the transmission business and vitally concerned in the radio and its commercial future. It claimed that present broadcasters are interested in the industry only as a means of selling...
...dinner was given on March 2 to the retiring American Minister, Mr. Ira Nelson Morris, and Mrs. Morris. Dr. Svente Arrhenius, President of the Nobel Institute, presiding over the banquet, expressed Sweden's grati- tude to " the most popular Minister who ever visited Stockholm...