Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them are quite reputable young men, slightly lacking in brain, perhaps, but accredited with honesty for all that. All of them would be bitterly offended if named by an ugly and descriptive term. And yet their actions are neither more nor less than thievery. When a man takes a book from--the Library shelves under cover of his coat, or in his bag, he is robbing every other man who may wish to read that book...
Perhaps those men who unconventionally loan University books to themselves do not think. A sense of conscience which is blunted ceases to be a sense; it is simply inert matter. Probably food speculators do not reflect on the ultimate consequences when they raise the price of life's necessities. But their lack of thought makes hunger no less bitter to those who are deprived. Personal gain is behind the food speculator and the book thief alike. But the books in the Widener Library are to be shared by all, they are community property, and a good citizen must always think...
Shall we borrow or shall we buy books? In impressive fashion the British are this month raising the issue by a movement for the revival of reading on the purchase basis. They have found that in a population of 45,000,000 there are not more than a few hundred thousand people who actually buy the books they read, while of the remainder there is reason to believe that a considerable proportion do not habitually even borrow books for reading. And it is to move the public to a better showing that a "national book fortnight" is being observed...
...induced rather by a spontaneous appreciation of the score than by any duty as descendants of Erin's Isle--which element does not characterize Boston audiences (?)--to commend the spirit of the songs. Perhaps Mr. Blossom has not constructed so definite a plot as is his custom, but his book, which deals with the adventures of Berry O'Day in an attempt to place Ireland on an equality basis with all nations of the world, provides a romantic theme par excellence...
...beauty of the music at times haunting and again vigorously inspiring, the success of the actors in creating the lively spirit of the book: the effective settings; the occasional bits of real and homely Irish humor; and the excellence of the singing voices combine to make "Eileen" so delightfully worth-while that a comparison of it with one of the popular musical comedies is quite as ridiculous as a comparison of the compositions of MacDowell and Berlin...