Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides jack-knives, the White House had an abundance of turkeys (nine of them), ducks, partridges (many a brace), Michigan potatoes (one sack), giant beets (one bushel), South Dakota honey (ten pounds). From Louis Liggett, Bostonian friend of the President, came the millionth rifle manufactured by the Winchester Arms Corp...
...AMERICAN SONGBAG-Carl Sandburg- Harcourt Brace...
GENIUS AND CHARACTER-Emil Ludwig-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). "And what else must we do but trace this man's every thought and act, every motive and impulse, back to the indivisible elements of his personality?" This is a fine and an austere credo for a biographer. Author Ludwig who followed it so completely and so admirably in his Napoleon, now applies it to a condensed explanation of men whose genius has been exposed in their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking...
...press will do more than increase his plurality in the next Chicago election. Politics and publicity are synonymous, and the easiest way to attain the latter is by insulting the intelligentsia and amusing the thinking minority. Harrying the agents of George the Fifth from the land and smoking a brace of cigars simultaneously are only a passing indication of the range and color of his demagogical accomplishments. Along with "the World's Greatest Newspaper", another Chicago product. It is unbelievable that much of his yammering is lot of the tongue in the check variety Perhaps he is a great humorist...
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL-Edward Morgan Forster-Harcourt, Brace (82.50). Author of A Passage to India, and other less famed but meritorious novels, E. M. Forster gave a series of lectures at Cambridge. In these lectures, now published, he traces, weighs, values, explains in original fashion, the elements of the novel. These elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels...