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Word: calf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly as simple as that of the patriarch Moses when he faced a similar situation. He had to deal with people who had already descended to their knees in worship. Finding them in this emotional mood it was not difficult to transfer their adoration from a golden calf to the heavens. There was no argument needed worship was worship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 1/25/1924 | See Source »

...intended by the composer. He had not the pretty wit and mocking contempt for silly humanity. He was simply Chaliapin ? boisterous, funny, romping. But the Metropolitan resounded with cheers and the Russian baritone broke the strictest rule of the house when he gave an encore to the Golden Calf song in the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ill-Bred Devil? | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...plays, essays on feminism, a book on education ? been literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post, editor of The Masses and The Liberator, special writer for various New York newspapers. He is married and lives at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Mr. Dell's previous novels are Moon-Calf (1920) and The Briary-Brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Janet March | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: BookPlates | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...bottle-nosed whale that was found stranded with its calf off Gloucester last Friday is now being prepared for the University's zoological museum under the direction of Professor Thomas Harbour '06, associate curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. As soon as the skeleton is cleaned it will be transported to Cambridge where the erecting will be done. It is a hyperoodon 23 feet long, a very rare species found usually in much colder regions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO HAVE STRANGE WHALE FROM GLOUCESTER | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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