Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play itself was originally entitled "Make-Believe", but was changed when the author was reminded of A. A. Milne's play of the same name. Making believe was the sin of Adam Baxter. He had always longed for knowledge, had always hoped to learn to read: but he never had succeeded. His longing was so keen, however, and his innate love of books so great, that he brought quite a number of volumes, irrespective of their contents...
...Adam Baxter possessed a very amazing memory. He could hear a passage read to him twice, and then forever after was able to recite it. With the aid of his unselfish though somewhat belligerent granddaughter, he conducts weekly "symposiums" for his town fellows: he teaches them much, inspires them, helps them--but he does not tell them he is illiterate, that his library is a fake. And so he is an imposter...
...Garrett's Ouroboros has the merits of a central idea, an impersonal viewpoint, a cool wit. He traces the growth of machinery from Adam's pastoral day to our pasteurized one, when it has become an essential of our existence, an "extension" of human nature with which humanity will have to harmonize itself or starve...
Outside the station a sleek limousine belonging to the Roumanian Embassy waited. Into it stepped Mme. Lupescu, whose toque was brown. Into it stepped Carol, "whose princely Adam's Apple bounced up and down on his long scrawny neck," according to the now frankly vexed pressmen...
...purse. Was it truly the King's gold that he was spending? Dealers thought not, but the rumor persisted. S. D. Bowers, a collector, bought two satinwood commodes for $11,600. On the third day Mr. Partridge again paid the highest price?$16,000?for a pair of Adam bookcases, heirlooms of the Chesterfield family. English and American bidders worked against each other as if the sale had been an international polo match. But now the excitement had cooled a little. Fevered patricians did not get up and shout their bids; they were represented by their agents who, to indicate...