Word: palmely
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...printed, a map of the world. Thereon are inscribed the names of places where styles originate. There is Hollywood and Bar Barbor Deanville and Newport, Lido Venice, St. Moritz, Palm Beach, Epsom Downs, Paris, West-bury, New Haven and Princeton. "Men who know and care about what to wear," reads the legend underneath, "gather at these places for business, pleasure, or social activities" Cambridge, to the sartorial lexicographer of Hart. Schaffner and Marx, is terra incognita, a wild land whence explorers bring back tales of wild and unkempt savages, untailored philistines...
...king of three little islands and dozens of little islets out in a tropic sea, where one's word is law and where the palm leaves wiggle in approbation,-such is the destiny of Captain Waldo Evans, U. S. N. retired, onetime commandant of the Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Training Station, onetime Governor of Samoa, who was last week appointed by President Coolidge to be "king" of the Virgin Islands. His official title is Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would...
...same exhibit was another painting of a mother, "The Foster Mother," by Frederic Cayley-Robinson, R. A., 64, noted British paint- er of water colors, ambitious murals, Biblical illustrations for the famed Medici Society (prints). The day after Painter McEvoy's death, Painter Robinson died, in London. A palm spray was placed beneath the portrait of his foster mother...
...Carnegie Institute (TIME, Oct. 11 et seq.). Among them was a certain "Portrait of My Mother," not by Whistler, but by a friend of Whistler, Ambrose McEvoy, R. A., 48, noted British painter of women. On the day the Cleveland exhibit opened, Painter McEvoy died, in London. A palm spray was placed beneath the portrait of his mother...
...mark on your hand will fade out in a few days. Its purpose is to prevent you from voting illegally more than once. At the last election it is estimated that 50% of the voters 'repeated.' If you have been tattooed anywhere except inconspicuously on the palm of the right hand you possess the right to complain to the municipality...