Word: aid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great a range of subjects as illustrations for the Bible to dancing figures by Toulouse-Lautrec. Among them are woodcut book-illustrations, numbering more than 500. In many cases the whole page of the book is preserved, showing the cut in its setting on the page of text, an aid to the student of early printing. Included are examples from the chief centers of book-illustration in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; many were colored by hand in imitation of miniatures in manuscripts for which printed books were cheaper substitutes...
...party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from his car. ¶At Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer. He remarked to his host that Col. Lindbergh should...
...Journalist Swope. In blaring newspaper advertisements throughout the land appeared his defiant signature and photograph. His message in these advertisements was: "I light a Lucky whenever I am tempted to eat between meals. . . . The activities of a newspaper demand good physical condition. I find Lucky Strike an immeasurable aid in helping me keep trim and fit. ... Toasting makes Lucky Strike the cigarette of joy and benefit...
...watching the black swirls of the grim river, still and stark on the slab in the white morgue--the caprice of nature lives and dies. Life in the well of loneliness. Radclyffe Hall beckons with a sympathetic smile, a book in her hand, for mankind to come to the aid of the lost. But contrary to her intentions, her humane gesture is greeted only with the crash of tea cups on polite floors, the sneers of the intellectuals, and the holy pronunciamentos of of the court of civil law. Despite the while of approval shed upon her by George Bernard...
What can she do? There is no response to her efforts. No one will come to the aid of poor creations of nature's caprice. They are doomed to creep through existence unheeded, without pity or attention. Mankind is insensible! It is not attuned to the higher appeals of life...