Word: bookes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read your magazine from cover to cover and I was a great deal surprised when I came across (in the May 20 issue) my uncle's picture, Homer Guck. You stated that his name was pronounced "Guke," allow me to correct you, it is spelt Guck as in book...
...pack of cards, standing on a tabaret. Any card named by any member of the audience rose from the pack. A glass globe was put over the frame, a deck of cards was provided by a member of the audience, the frame was raised above the tabaret on a book supported by small glass pedestals, the frame was set swinging through the air suspended by two cards-none of these successive changes interfered; the named cards continued to rise. The up-and-down motion of the cards obeyed the indication of the outstretched hand of any member of the audience...
Last Autumn when Mrs. Peterkin announced a book called Scarlet Sister Mary, librarians throughout South Carolina ordered copies as a matter of course. They were a little taken aback to read the publisher's blurb that this was "the story of the harlot of Blue Brook Plantation.'' But since there are black harlots on some plantations, and everyone knows it, most South Carolina librarians read the book anyway and put it on the shelves...
...Librarian Mattie Pearson of Gaffney. She concluded that Scarlet Sister Mary was too promiscuous, even if she was the brainchild of Mrs. Peterkin. Mrs. Pearson saw to it that the book stayed off the public shelves of Gaffney. When Gaffneyans came asking for Scarlet Sister Mary they were told she had been suppressed for immorality...
...Freeman and W. Wells Alexander, each 22-to awaken Gaffney from what they, as college men, called its "uncultured daze.'' Moreover, there was, as Mrs. Peterkin said in her letter to Mr. Lay, the possibility that Librarian Pearson had eaten something disagreeable the morning she proscribed the book...