Word: bab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Frederick Roberts Rinehart, youngest (third) son of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart ("K," Bab-A Sub-Deb, Tish-); and Miss Elizabeth Sherwood; at Geneva...
...working conditions such as feminine competition, young wife gets support too poor to permit much breeding. Reed remedy: "Upon the completion of an important piece of work for the state, men are paid for their service, and there is no reason why women should not receive comparable recognition [per bab]." Some other subjects treated: the Evolution of the Present Family Form, Those Who Have Not Married, the Hypertrophy of Family Bonds, Women as Prostitutes, Divorce as a Means of Family Dissolution...
...been noted before. But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories. It must be remembered, however, that a newer school of thought has evidence that Mr. Bab bitt laughs as heartily at his own humbug-Aeries and homilies as does the sophisticate...
...wholly accountable that his favorite show was "Bab"; such a man could never prostitute his art by going to see RinTinTin. His friends began to telephone him palindromes; he needed a telephoned eyeopener to bring him out of a thesaurus hangover from the night before. But Mr. Diuguid triumphed even in death, lingering until the eleventh month of his 77th year. It is a proof of our perverted sense of values that a life so dedicated should win only a posthumous notoriety on the front page of the New York Times...
...marks in the Class B competition did not come up to the newly established records in the upper group. Bab-bit of the Arlington High Champions was clocked in 10 3-5 seconds for a new century record in the first race. The former 440 yard run time was beaten by a full second, when Johnson of Somerville crossed the line in 51 1-5 seconds. The half mile was run by Chapman of Quincy in 2 minutes 3 1-5 seconds for another record, and Salomone of Mechanics Arts lowered the furlong mark when he broke the tape...