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Word: boni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Procrastinating non-applicants wondered how they might go about applying for their boni some day during the next five weeks. The simplest way would be to take the following steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Boni | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...costly complete translation or he can read them is the Latin or Greek. The latter is much to be desired, but often impossible, but either is better than to be led into believing that na incomparable literary masterpiece is such sour dishwater as the present offering of Messrs.. Boni and Live right...

Author: By Lucius BEEBE. G., | Title: Petronius 'Pot-House Odyssey Dulcified | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

CIRCUS PARADE?Jim Tully?A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Before he became a literary man, Jim Tully was, as everyone knows, a he-man who got slapped hard by life. His thick red hair was badly tousled in roundhouses, barrooms, boxcars and worse. Hanging around a small-time circus was comparatively idyllic. All he had to do was help drive the tentstakes, feed the animals, chase vermin, and fool or fight the "rube" public in quiet sections of the South. He had much time to develop his "understanding" of the rudimentary humanities and brutalities of hand-to-mouth people and evolve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...WOMEN AT POINT SUR?Robinson Jeffers?Boni & Liveright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...HOLY LOVER?Marie Conway Oemler-Boni & Liveright ($2). With religious excitement curdling his "mind, John Wesley came to Georgia. There he fell in love with 15-year-old Sophy Hopkey, made the saving of her soul his excuse for a prolonged and unculminated courtship. When she, tired of his reluctance to propose, married William Williamson, John Wesley flew into a silly and destructive rage. Not content to relinquish his inamorata, he pursued her with persecutions, driving her away from Holy Communion, questioning the legality of her marriage. At last, after she miscarried a child, her husband sued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Honore de Balzac | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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