Women set to reshape home planning in house survey
The Architectural Forum reports results from 11,207 families showing women’s demand for greater comforts and a shift in room layouts. The study notes preference for sunny homes, more closet space, better lighting, and a strong leaning toward Colonial two story brick exteriors with basements and attached garages remains split.
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New York
Architectural Forum
Niagara Hudson Power Corporation
Forum
Five English words ending in dous
The statement lists five words ending in dous including tremendous stupendous hazardous jeopardous and horrendous. It asserts these are the only five such words in English.
Let Us Be Thankful by Leonard A Barrett
The piece reflects on genuine thankfulness beyond money, urging real gratitude through loyal service to friends. It contrasts material wealth with life’s true blessings that cannot be bought, emphasizing appreciation and ethical obligation.
Thankfulness and liberty in a spirit of devotion
A spoken tribute on gratitude for blessings beyond money and price. It extols trust from children, humane leadership, nature's beauty, and the harvest, then lauds democracy and religious liberty as core rights safeguarded by sincere hearts and sacrifice.
Growing plants enhance home decor and health
The article urges careful placement of plants to maximize decor while keeping them healthy. It notes light is essential, with sunlit windows and seasonal position changes to prevent fading foliage and drooping blossoms. Temporary shifts preserve vitality and beauty. Bell Syndicate. -WNN Service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNN Service
Doors of Our Churches Open To All
A Western Newspaper Union notice urges gratitude and service, welcoming participation in Christian opportunity regardless of denomination. It calls readers to value life around them and be helpful as a sign of thankfulness.
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America
Western Newspaper Union
Trevor
Garden of Allah
Charles Boyer
Marlene Dietrich
Merle Oberon
Eleanor Powell
New York
Matching wall color with room furnishings guidance
In rooms with light tinted walls a lighter wall tone harmonizes with existing furnishings. Cream or tan may be replaced by oyster white or light rose, or a white wall repainted in cream. Gray harmonizes with many interiors previously keyed to another color.
Wardrobe work for Lloyds of London spans four fashion eras
The piece notes Roger and the ward robe department for Lloyds of London at 20th Century Fox, with an annex for day and night shifts totaling eighty seamstress workers per shift. It highlights Deanna Durbin and Eddie Cantor's CBS radio prominence, Leslie Howard denying his daughter a film debut, and mentions Monte Blue in The Blacksmith's Gift set in 1837 Illinois.
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Roger
20Th Century-Fox
Lloyds of London
Deanna Durbin
Eddie Cantor
CBS
Miss Durbin
Hollywood
Monte Blue
John Deere
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Prone and Supine Definitions in Quick Quiz
Answers cover pose meaning prone on the face and supine on the back. Phoenicians were ancient seafaring inhabitants in the Levant. A fishplate joins rails. a weevil is a destructive larva. There are thirty two quarts in a bushel and the Nile flows into the Mediterranean. The earth is about 93 million miles from the sun. The figurehead is a carved ornament on a ship's prow. Milesians are invaders from Ireland. sumpter mule is a pack animal. The British coat of arms features the Unicorn.
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Palestine
Mediterranean
Spain
John Greenleaf Whittier
Undersecretary of State Roles and Responsibilities
The undersecretary of state acts as principal assistant to the secretary in shaping and executing foreign policy. He represents the secretary in receiving foreign representatives and, in his absence, serves as acting secretary. He directs the department’s work and oversees the foreign service.
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Secretary of State
Department of State
Foreign ‘Service
Thought Volt-aire Some New Refrigerator Stock
In a Greenwich village literary fair anecdote, David L. Salmon recalls a Wall Street trader known for nerve and poor education who, asked about Voltaire by a village woman, predicts the subject will go much lower after a brief analysis.
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David L. Salmon
New York Stock Exchange
Greenwich Village
Meadows
Voltaire
Wall Street
Beauty’s pull and the burden it bears
Quotations from Steele and Lavater ponder how beauty captivates the world and shapes desire. They note that charm cannot be self bestowed nor kept without mutual openness, while suggestively linking freedom in presence to mutual liberty in relationships.
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Steele
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BeEcuz
Arn
Indian Archipelago
WIU Service
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William the Silent
Prince of Orange
God
Charlie Gehringer
Detroit Tigers
Me Hlousehold
Lydia le Baron Walker
Jean
Martha Shintani
Garfield Park Conservatory
Chicago
Virginia Vale
Leslie Howard
Leslie Ruth
Paramount
Leslie Ruth Howard
Papa
Mary Rogers
Will
Twentieth Century-Fox Studios
Mary
June Lang
Warner Baxter
Baxter
Miss Lang
Lavater
Glover's
Glovers
Bent
Fourth Avenue
New York City
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