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Billboards were an unsavory addition to the landscape then. But the modern art of bill posting is quite a different thing and in California it has reached its highest development. Segregated spots of color in the dun cities, surrounded by well manicured lawns, supported by classic figures in white and lighted by dainty top lights.

The doing of kind and generous acts for utter strangers has not been a ruling passion with me. But so far I have handled several assignments in which have I failed?" "Look who's been coachin' you, though!" says I. J. Bayard bows and waves a manicured hand graceful.

As he took the chair pointed out to him, he was being catalogued by Bristow as showing too much uncertainty, even a womanish timidity. Bristow noticed also that his thick, soft blond hair was carefully parted and brushed, and that his fingers were much manicured. He breathed in short, quick gasps. "What is it? How how did it happen?" he asked, his gaze still on Bristow.

Gifts won't help not even gifts from " His intensely blue eyes danced "from such charming white hands so beautifully manicured." She rose with an angry toss of the head. "I didn't ask you here to annoy me with impertinences about my finger nails." He rose, at his ease, good-humored, ready to go.

"When he makes that extra million he can star me on Broadway, in my own show. He, he!" "You'll have to spend half of it at John the Barber's getting your voice marceled and your face manicured," snarled Pinkie. "Come, Reg, and dance with me: these bounders bore me." "Run along, Pinkie, and fox-trot your grouch away with Shine Taylor. Here comes the wine I ordered What's your name, girlie?

Isadore Shongut, pressed, manicured, groomed, shaved something young about him; something conceited; his magenta bow tied to a nicety, his plushlike hair brushed up and backward after the manner of fashion's latest caprice, and smoothing a smooth hand along his smooth jowl. "Morning, ma. What's the row, Renie? Gee! it's a swell joint round here for a fellow with nerves! What's the row, kid?" Mr.

"We came over to see about puttin' up a couple of skyscrapers!" replied Jimmie. "The air seems nice an' high here. Guess we wouldn't have to push it up any to build fifty stories. Where you takin' us?" he went on. "If I owned this shrubbery we're borin' through, I'd have it manicured." "Where did you leave the Manhattan?" asked the other, without taking the trouble to answer Jimmie's question.

These were great athletes he saw that at once and with a savage bull with sharp-pointed hoofs and horns in place of that trained manicured one well, these men would be taking chances which no athlete at home ever had to take, unless they were aerial-bar men in the circus or loop-the-loopers or something like that.

It was a fine place, a real family seat. While she built, she manicured her finger nails, looking at them critically. She had not begun to spoil them yet, thanks to the rubber gloves and the housemaid's gloves with which Osborn had declared his eternal readiness to provide her.

He got shaved every morning, manicured his nails more carefully, changed his linen every two days, from a legitimate sense of what was proper, and out of respect for the national Order, of which he formed a part, and from that day he was another Caravan, scrupulously clean, majestic and condescending.