Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from Irvin Cobb to Gloria Swanson. He is so friendly and so human that it scarcely seems fair to catalog him as an English novelist...
...American public. [But the American public failed to support it, and the inspiring production lasted only two weeks.] Few who have not made a study of the man's life realize the universality of his genius or the variety of his contributions to medicine and industry. A brief catalog of them includes at least the following: 1.) He determined the symmetry and asymmetry of crystals by rotation of light...
...leaves everybody pretty badly off and presumptively the better for it. The catalog of the Kayne misadventures concludes when old Peter, while his house is being sold over his head, succumbs to apoplexy so violently as to rip away a tapestry revealing the words: Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it. Among other things, that is Mr. Train's text...
...POOR MAN?Stella Benson? Macmillan ($2.00). The unheroic " hero " is a " poor, sickly thing," a contemptible, insignificant, friendless Englishman. The book is a catalog of his inadequacies, as opposed to the very different inadequacies of those who despise him, in bohemian California, on the Yangtze in China. The author's pen is a sharp, acidulous weapon...
...Library has lately received from the Chinese Legation in Washington a sumptuous volume in an interesting and beautiful brocade case, comprising a catalog in Chinese of a comprehensive manuscript collection of 36,000 volumes, covering Chinese History, Philosophy and Classics, said to be the largest collection of this character in existence...