Word: cartes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field, but in a cool detached manner; R. E. M. Cowie, President of the American Railway Express, a canny, able old Scotchman, describing how the pushcart gave way to the horse-cart, the horse-cart to the express train, and predicting that the Express company will give unlimited business to the first responsible air transport company; Grover C. Loening, Manhattan society man, young, sparkling, decidedly of the "beaumonde" yet one of the ablest aeronautical engineers in the country who pictured the amphibian...
...pushcart, the horse-cart, the express train...
...Little Clay Cart. That curious little back alley theatre, the Neighborhood Playhouse, pushed its memorable Grand Street Follies out of the way to do a Hindu play. A Hindu play sounds formidable, clogged with dead bodies floating down the Ganges and that sort of thing. As a matter of fact, most of the CART is comic. There are courtesans and kings, several scenes, no dramatic pyramiding as we know it. Rare colorings and scents of strange philosophies mingle swiftly with the laughter. Altogether a shrewd and sensitive experiment...
When the fruit man hawks through the alley of a morning, he does not cry a catalog of his cart. He calls particular attention to the absurd price for which he will part with his bananas today, or to the utterly ridiculous figure he has set upon his prunes...
...face of the globe meet together in athletic rivalry is a splendid idea, and if firmer friendships and better understandings spring up, well and good. But to say that the Games are promoted chiefly for the purpose of cementing friendship is to mistake effect for cause, and put the cart before the horse. The Games are for sport, not for diplomacy. But because they were not so considered, when they failed to be what they were not, and never intended to be, that failure was doubly emphasized in the eyes of those who had persisted in misunderstanding them. In other...