Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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His Story. Escaped from board school, with three Shakespeare plays as the sum of his knowledge, Edgar Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In...
Heartfelt, this elegy appeared last week from the pen of Assistant Keeper Hiley of the Department of Printed Books of the august British Museum. It was written in memory of ancient and honorable Cat Mike, whose small tombstone, near the Great Russell Street entrance to the Museum, bears this lapidary...
A long train chugs into a little station on the outskirts of the Big City. It comes to a stop, comes to life. Men pop out of its doors. In a moment there is amazing activity. Torches held in brawny hands provide light. Neighing horses are driven in dozens down...
But now and then the smell of stale cigar smoke disturbs the quiet atmosphere of America's most antique daily in an incongruous fashion. Many a college graduate of the mauve decade whose four college years taught him the art of a polished dependence upon tradition must have shuddered last...
On Monday, when the market reopened, speculators were nervous−their biggest bugaboo, the Federal Reserve Board, was to meet that afternoon. The usual Monday morning rally, produced by the accumulation of buying-orders during the weekend, failed to come. Call money was renewed at 9%. The rush of selling...