Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young's* international bank is surely a wow. The rest of us plowboys and sons of mechanics were trying to figure out just why a private American individual was mixing in foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun† is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,†† of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest-like buzzards over carrion-voilà tout...
...valuation issue with its corollary, confiscation, was clearly posed. The O'Fallon went into court to fight the I. C. C.'s order. The great railroads of the land clustered about the midget line in friendly fashion. St. Louis' lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal...
...game was played in the Esculapian Room of the Harvard Club of Boston, where it was called on account of darkness after nine scoreless innings. With the development of inside baseball among the Harvard erudites during the past five years, it is thought that the Crimson standard-bearers can fashion out a run before the regulation time...
...folding doors opened, disclosed the broad gold-laced backs of the court chamberlain and court steward, bowing low before Majesty. Chamberlain and steward backed into the room. Entered the Queen of England, ablaze with diamonds, wearing a "white and gold gown with an overdress of changeable pastel shades," as fashion technicians described it. Holding her firmly by the hand was scarlet-coated Edward of Wales, his uniform collar embroidered with the wild onion of the Welsh Guards. Prince Edward led his mother to the single throne on the dais, bowed, took his place in the brilliant family circle...
...Aerial stories, crossword puzzles, Paris fashion reports were added...