Word: wrappings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, thieves entered the home of J. G. Haber, sausage manufacturer. They found Mr. Haber snoozing by the radio, Mrs. Flossy Haber singing in the bathtub. Opening the bathroom door, they tossed Mrs. Haber a wrap, made her get them her jewel box, contents valued...
...without humor, Editor Barzini described a little-suspected shortcoming of the tabloid-size newspaper. When the Corriere first started, he related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...
...world knew that Frau Sacher ruled her hotel no longer. Viennese looked at the announcement over their coffee and whipped cream, and wondered. Was Edouard tired of paying Mamma's bills? Was Frau Anna, now nearly 70, retiring from old age? Had she, who wore an ermine wrap as a bathrobe, finally grown too eccentric...
...three women in the play are cast almost perfectly. Clare Eames, as the nurse, is tremendously moving, though once or twice a little over-hating. Casha Pringle, as the wife, is a small-faced, tense English girl, who, when she removed her opera wrap in the first act, revealed a figure which caused the audience to gasp with approval. Mary Jerrold, as the mother, is wise and charming...
...name of Harvard Lowella used to shudder, sometimes at the same time drawing the ermine wrap about her slim young shoulders, just to prove she knew her Katherine Brush. And never were her sensibilities so ravished as when she walked through the Yard at noon. Now all that will be changed. For, though the world of Beacon Hill laughed, and some of those who knew seem to have pitied, recognition of the Cabot pleadings has come at last...