Word: books
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete copies of "King Arthur" is kept in the Widener collection. This book, the only replica of which is in the British Museum, is entitled, in full, "The story of the most noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the which was the fyrst of the worthyes chrysten, and also of his noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde Tablo." A small folio, olive morocco in color, and with gilt edges, this book is beautifully illustrated in the first portion, with fancy wood-cuts...
...Widener room, there are examples of many of editions of the work a very interesting one of which is Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, which has all the pictures of the "Dance of Death" along the borders of the pages. Death" along the borders of the pages...
...books are mostly filled with records, listing sales and accounts in general, of this company, which did much business in importation, especially of liquors, for the Chinese of the city of Canton. These books have been rotting because of the ravages of white ants, and those of worms. Some of the leaves are filled with the tiny holes made by the destroyers. The one of the books in the worst condition has about half of its cover eaten away, while the remainder is perforated with the holes left by the little beasts. The pages and sheets of the volume...
...provide a moderately large audience at the Dramatic Club, they occasionally attend lectures by visiting speakers. But the vast majority are more consistent in their devotion to the moving pictures, a technical discussion of the tactics employed in the Oshkosh-Podunk football game absorbs them more than a good book, and the bridge table is more popular than the lecture hall...
...site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here Laborite MacDonald met the American Federation of Labor (see p. 14), raised a cheer by calling himself "still the old workman that I was born." In the afternoon he signed the Golden Book of the Rockefeller-gifted University of Toronto, received the crimson hood of an honorary LL.D. At lunch in the Men's Canadian Club he said: "Unless we can preserve the bond of reverence between us [Great Britain and the Dominions] nothing else can take its place." He asked their cooperation...