Word: floweredness
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Meanwhile the stockmarket, pursuing an independent course, has been climbing since the middle of March. Last week it flowered in five successive days of million-share trading or better. Brokers got so excited that they began to call up long-lost customers to spread the cheer. Silver stocks led the...
This time he got up to the ground floor, and safely inside. He landed a job as salesman for a new patent medicine called Vinol, sold it with such vim & vigor that at 25 he was able to organize Drug Merchants of America, a buying agency for retail druggists. The...
Under the tutorial system the Music Department is trying to give undergraduates a perspective of the history of music as a whole. Picture the plight of the poor student who goes to find some fifteenth century music. He finds that he must content himself with only two collections: early Bodleian...
Socialite women on the French Riviera had the brilliant idea last winter of dressing for the beach in flowered brassieres and wrap-around shorts, supposedly copied from the modest, knee-length pareu that Tahitian women wear. Last week U. S. manufacturers were plugging "Tahitian pareos" for the Florida socialite trade...
"J. Pierpont Morgan, the world banker, whose hobby, my little readers, is gardening but who also loves midgets, money and other 'm' words, like muchness." Thus did Vanity Fair in its current number dedicate "Vanity Fair's Own Paper Dolls," a new one-page feature. In the...