Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lovers of the true and the beautiful will agree with the Bookman in its suggestion that, for the good of American literature and increased sales, certain authors forbid the dissemination of their photographs. One cannot look at Joseph Hergesheimer for any length of time and still remain confident in the belief that he has taken tea with Corrine Griffith as many times as he says he has. Christopher Morley undoubtedly has a very kind face but he does not appear to be as whimsical as his publisher's blurbs would have led his readers to believe. And, as the Books...
...beds that are "oblong boxes, made of one-inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
...Chicago owns public utility properties worth $873,135,568 and has total assets of practically a billion dollars ($973,859,382) may startle governmental officials already queasy with suspicion of public utility holding corporations such as this. Prudent, President O'Brien warded off aspersion: "Public utilities cannot be operated economically in small units. Only by grouping them into large, strong organizations can they be favorably financed, scientifically engineered and successfully operated so as to render services at the lowest reasonable cost to the user...
...than firsts. Mr. Arlen will not again encounter overt U. S. curiosity about his fancy waist and waistcoats, his night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends, of whom he made quite...
...club's winning another American League pennant this year, he said, "I should say that the team which beats the Philadelphia Athletics this year will win out. I think the Yanks have as good a chance of doing that as has any other team, but further I cannot predict. I can assure you, however, that the Yanks will again try hard to win the pennant...