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...know of at least one Argentine who did not think as Mr. Llambi-Campbell evidently does. His name was Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, onetime President of Argentina in the-1870s. He established schools based upon the United States model, educated his people in the political institutions of the United States, which he greatly admired and respected, by having such great American documents as the Federalist, and the constitutional writings of Joseph Story, translated into Spanish...
Collegiate editors have been stealing such gags-and even worse ones-from each other since the 1870s, when the Lampoon and Yale Record were born. These college magazines reached a heyheyday in the hip-flasked, short-skirted '20s, when John Held Jr.'s flat-chested flappers were all the rage and Judge and the old Life were the thing to copy. The jokes had not changed much since, but the imitative style had. In the depression, many became introspective, proletarian, or both; others took to aping Esquire and got suppressed for it. This year most campus editors seemed...
...Brunswick Hotel, Boston's famous hostelry of presidents, dukes, princes, and elite of the 1870s, 80s, and 90s is opening its doors again this fall-but this time for Ex-Gls and their wives...
Soldiers knew the name of Sir Samuel James Browne, not for any of these solid accomplishments, but for his casual invention, some time in the 1870s, of a handy leather uniform belt. As a one-armed man, Sir Samuel had trouble managing the dangling saber at his left side. To solve the problem he hooked the saber up to his waist belt within easy reach, then designed a cross-belt running over the right shoulder to carry part of the weight. Two-armed officers liked the belt as much as Sir Samuel did. The Sam Browne belt became standard throughout...
...Angeles police apparently looked the other way. The press, with the exception of the Daily News and Hollywood Citizen-News, helped whip up the mob spirit. And Los Angeles, apparently unaware that it was spawning the ugliest brand of mob action since the coolie race riots of the 1870s, gave its tacit approval...