Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London stirred at the prospect of seeing and hearing this forthright man, so boldly histrionic on the outside, so warm, gentle, shrewd on the inside. The Kansas City Convention had refused to renominate him as Vice President only to have President Hoover recognize his worth in this highest diplomatic appointment...
Tariff. Great was the agitation last week in Canada at the prospect of an in crease in U. S. tariffs, particularly on farm products. Last year the U. S. sold Canada, its best customer, $916,000,000 worth of goods, mostly manufactured, buying in return some $489,000,000 worth of Canadian exports, chiefly wood and paper ($237,000,000), fish and meats ($88,000,000), farm products ($57,960,170). Loud was last week's talk of raising the Canadian tariff in retaliation. Premier McKenzie King called for "cool heads" in dealing with these international economic matters...
...gladly give planes to well-organized college units for the sake of the free publicity and advertising the gifts would engender. President Loening clapped his approval to the idea but begged off from applications for his big amphibians. For best college flying activities he has put up $5,000 worth of prizes...
...done, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take a little in my mouth to get the taste, and then spit it out. Incidentally America has some of the best water I have ever tasted." Worth memorizing is the fact that 1921 was a "great year" not only for Châateau Yquem but for almost every white wine of note in France or Germany. Memorable too are Châateau Lafite 1920 and Châateau Haut-Brion 1921. Due to the craze for Champagne, these...
...sign a contract with the Paris Pattern Co., Inc., by which the magazine has "exclusive right to describe and publish the latest models" supplied each month by 17 tip-top Parisian couturiers, including. Chanel, Lanvin, Poiret, Jane Régny, Lucile, Pre-met, Lenief, Louiseboulanger, Nicole Groult, Worth, Paquin, Jenny, Drecoll-Beer, Redfern, Doeuillet-Doucet, Philippe et Gaston, renée. Said the Ladies' Home Journal for May: "Our patterns are not inspired by Paris, they are not adapted from. Paris; they are actually designed, created and shown in the salons of the French haute couture," Once upon...