Word: purveyor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salutes. Only U. S. sponsor with the right to mention the King & Queen commercially was Canada Dry, by appointment purveyor of drinking water (60 gallons each day) to the Royal party...
...even her husband's, Director Guthrie McClintic -ever becomes a face. Toward other actors she is virtually all smiles. About nothing, about no one, is she pert, mettlesome, unexpected. Compared to the First Lady of Broadway, the First Lady of the Land is, six days a week, a purveyor of shuddersome scandals...
...illegitimate child, but compared with Pepys, Bachelor Greville was a veritable monk. It is easy to see why his love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de Roos, who is the grand purveyor of women to all his friends, gave her to me"), 35-year-old Greville bitterly philosophizes that on account of her he has read no more than a dozen heavy volumes, doubts "if ever I shall take one to live with me again...
...candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of glass." Sample pieces contained as high as 205 insect fragments, 204 mouse hairs. The Moscowitz sentence: $600 fine (legal maximum) and three years on probation for the filth purveyor...
Elbert Hubbard, flowing-haired, flowing-tied purveyor of philosophical-artistic tripe to the U. S. of a generation ago, was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches...