Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...
Though Clemence Dane's "Broome Stages" is a novel of seven generations of a theatrical family, Miss Dane found her inspiration in the Plantagenet kings and not in any of the great stage families. She had always considered the Plantagenets the most interesting family in the world but thought the period too far back in history to make an interesting setting for a book. Then someone suggested that she could write about the Plantagenets if she made them actors, for actors are autocrats and the great families of the stage are the last dynasties that exercise the divine rights...
...fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...
...morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial manager of the company's business in Canada. He became part owner and vice president of Raymond & Whitcomb Co.. travel agents, and then assistant to President Seward Prosser in Liberty National Bank...