Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each customer a registered motbok (passbook). Whenever and whatever he or she buys is recorded. A catalog of 800 wines and 250 liquors lists prime Scotch whiskey at $2.50, sound French champagne at $2.75 and fiery Swedish brandy...
...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...
Such an examination or test, coming as it does all at once on top of the others is palpably unfair; the students should be notified in the catalog, so that if they are of the temperament which makes them susceptible to violent and tumultuous distractions during examinations they would know that the Harvard Law School was not the place for them...
...business in Des Moines. Their papers, Register (morning and Sunday) and Tribune-Capital (evening), too big for Des Moines, circulate through all Iowa. They are read by more inhabitants of the state where the tall corn grows than any other publications, except possibly the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalog...
...their veins that fire to which the Jewish prophets gave utterance in the time of Jerusalem's glory. . . . He is not concerned with their religion, past or present, but solely with their racial roots, as in the case of the Damrosch family. . . ." He proceeds then with his catalog. Among others, he includes...