Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sargent--Adams v. Ed. Warren--Anderson, Booth...
...Garden City, Long Island, was produced a book. It was the first book bred by the massive merger (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927) of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...
...gets out The Saturday Review. Accurate, tireless, tactful, intelligent she is a serene, important, almost indispensable character in the book of literary life. In honor of good deeds done quietly she was given the first copy of Claire Ambler. Her book was autographed by F. N. Doubleday, George Doran, Booth Tarkington. Eminent speechmaking critics drew succeeding copies of the de luxe edition...
...interview in the New York Times, Booth Tarkington rails against the overeducation of college students, and declares that the only fit companion for a young student of his acquaintance is a professor of Greek. This is manifestly unfair both to the highly learned masses who went no more than through grammar school, and to the professors of Greek. A glance at the human dramas called advertisements among which Mr. Tarkington's stories are inserted should have long since convinced him that the remark about not having to go to college to get an education is no empty aphorism, and that...
Besides Stollmeyer, the following letter-men will be available for next year's team: Bernard Barnes '30, Derk Bodde '30, A. G. Booth '30, Louis Kerness '29, A. S. Rudd '29, Reed Ryan '29, W. J. Salmon '30, and W. D. Vogel...