Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jews have done inestimable service to music. Never, even in its most fanatical moments, has Anti-Semiticism presented any serious argument to the contrary. Now as if to prove that which has needed no proof, Gdal Saleski has compiled a catalog* of famed Jewish musicians. He stresses individual contributions, the contribution of the Jewish people as a whole...
...contest so difficult that none but experienced puzzlers had a ghost of a chance, and so expensive (an entry cost from $9 to $12) that comparatively few of their regular readers tried the game. Those of them who did participate endeavored to find the best answers in a catalog of over 6,000 titles in small print, whereas the so-called experts purchased for $1 each lists of answers compiled by other experts, which contained about 40 titles per picture, and from these short lists they made their selections that won the big money...
That famed personality, Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse, whose name sounds like a child of Peggy Joyce and reads like the number in a mail order catalog, certainly merits a reply to his letter in TIME, June...
...overcome by her discoveries that she felt justified in asking the audience to absorb and admire the stage-setting for 153 pages, before putting her characters in motion. Similarly, the reconstruction of Chicago is rich, racy but redundant. Splendid characters and material are worn down by overuse of the catalog sentence, repetition of scenes. Nevertheless, the material and characters are splendid; the theme broad, native. Gathered speed at the narratives end puts Show Boat over the sandbars-a deep-draft, beamy vessel; a gorgeous excursion. The Author. Edna Ferber, pride of Kalamazoo, Mich., where she was born 39 years...
...would take many times the number of words and lines in this column to name the other contributions of Harvard to the country whose sons it has educated; the long list of distinguished men who have graduated from its lecture halls and its famous Yard, the catalog of great teachers and scholars who have sat in its chairs of learning...