Word: cambric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CAMBRIC TEA - Rebecca Lowrie - Harpers ($2.00). Author Lowrie has re- membered a few intensely recognizable bits of childhood: her stray animals' cemetery, with a particularly fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church; her discovery of The Count of Monte Cristo, and amazement, on being called to supper, that all her humdrum world was going on just as usual...
...offer young men opportunities equal to those offered in the best colleges for young women." A series of lantern slides entitled The Circling Years, accompanied by rhymed comment, showed the "meteoric" growth of Smith from 14 to 2,000 students, showed the evolution of female habiliments from trailing black cambric skirts to bloomers, showed a now dignified class dean riding the first bicycle ever seen on the Smith campus, showed geographical changes: -Where our stately buildings tower...
...Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick of his deft cambric handkerchief, he worsts that most delectable of all villains, Noah Beery, and returns to wipe his feet on the top piece of his rival. The whole is served in Southern style, with a beautiful, beautiful heroine, and dialogue in which there "ah no ahs." So once more Rhodemont is made ridiculous...
...Just about as stimulating as a dish of cambric tea . . . Pious phrases and sympathetic advice to everybody to cease being naughty and all join hands in a real romping game of ring-around-a-rosy."?a Hearst editorial...