Word: catalog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such catalog. The nearest approach is Appleton's' Cyclopedia of American Biography, six volumes, now 35 years of age. But, last week, the Nation was told it would receive a present. Perceiving that it was most improbable that any publisher of books would ever underwrite so vast an undertaking, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times declared his paper would advance $500,000 to the American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies, for the creation of 20 volumes containing the lives of some 20,000 illustrious Americans, including none of the living. The Times...
...once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." There is a quotation from Charles Kingsley that books open their hearts to us as brothers. The foreword is an honest and genial invitation to buy books. But there imbedded in its midst is that, wayward word "catalog." No U, no E. just og. On the outside of the list, the same atrocity occurs. No U, no E. just...
...anxious and troubled about many things. Nor do we know how much the Harvard Cooperative Society, Inc., has to do with Harvard University. Nevertheless, there is a juxtaposition, a nearness to the rose that makes one look for the higher and finer things. And so when one beholds "Catalog," one wanly looks at Brutus Harvard and asks, "No E. no U, just og?" Boston Transcript...
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...
...courage." This spirit runs through his music, which makes no compromises with the sugary "lollypop-school." There are but few exceptions to this: His Hungarian Dances are played, with excessive abandon, by every vaudeville violinist and every cafe-orchestra in Paris, and his Wiegenlied is listed in the catalog of every gramo-phone-record mannfacturer. But the bulk of Brahms remains "musicians' music." This is particularly true of his chamber music, classical forms to be executed by small combinations of stringed instruments and piano. Four or five solemn-visaged performers huddle their chairs into a little group...