Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorized to say that no copy of this book was ever received at Doom...
...Another time he asked me when he should sit for me next. I named a date. He consulted his note book, in which every fifteen minutes of his day are accounted for, and observed that on that day he had really intended to go out to the Presidential hunting lodge in the Schorf meadow for a holiday. Of course I offered to change the date, but he insisted on keeping the appointment. He would not for anything in the world have had his pleasure interfere with my convenience. Imagine the Emperor being so considerate...
...Copyist Alceo annoys the Metropolitan much less than Manhattan Critic Walter Pach, who recently published a book called Ananias (Harper's). Biblical Ananias lied to God. Artistic Ananias deceives himself and the public, lies to Apollo. He paints handsome, superficial canvases for popular and social success. U. S. museums, states Critic Pach, are full of them, particularly the Metropolitan.* What rather should happen is the cultivation of public taste by impact with fresh, live modes of expression...
...stoking on a ferry. When he stumbled up the levee he had no resources other than a staggering nose and an inclination to follow it into perilous places. It led him to jobs such as muleteer, waiter, stevedore, hack driver. It took him to libraries and book shops, and eventually to the editorial offices of Westliche Post, where he became a reporter...
...they did-300 Command-Aires,† 500 American Eagles, 500 Travel Airs, 200 Swallows. Fairchild and Curtiss made large contracts for plane deliveries. Scarcely was there a plane manufacturer who did not book immediate orders. Kreider-Reisner Challengers were popular,*as were Hamilton Metalplanes, Mohawk Pintos, Monarchs, Mono-coupes, Advance Wacos, and Consolidated Husky Juniors. Customers for the most part were young men. Air transport managers-for Transcontinental, National, Boeing, Western Air Express, Pan-American-examined the huge passenger planes -Fords, Fokkers, Loenings, Boeings, Keystones, Ryans, Stinson-Detroiters...