Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presumably the worst nightmare a Sears catalog man can have is that a Ward man has learned in advance how much Sears is charging for votive candles or alfalfa forks and has underbid Sears by a few cents. To guard against such peeking, at the Chicago printing plant of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), which shares this enormous order with W. F. Hall Printing Co.. the production space allotted to Ward and that to Sears are as carefully separated and shielded from each other as girls' and boys' dormitories in a State University...
Happy Major Hume uncovered the flyleaf of the book in his hand, read: "Index-Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library), Authors and Subjects, Fourth Series...
...leafed into the book, read what he had written: "The beginning of a new series of the Index-Catalog . . . is a milestone in the scientific advancement of the world. This work is not only the medical standard, but the most comprehensive piece of bibliography ever attempted in any field of knowledge. That the fourth series begins in the year in which the library celebrates its centennial is also significant. . . . In 1873 Surgeon John Shaw Billings, U. S. Army, began the gigantic labor of preparing the Index-Catalog, a work in which both authors and subjects, the medical literature...
Sale was largely inspired by the success of Naughty Marietta (TIME, April 1, 1935) which served as the first important cinema vehicle for Baritone Nelson Eddy, whose concert audiences have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced...
Between the red-&-gold covers of Porter Sargent's famed catalog of 4,000 private schools, many an undecided parent seeks an educational niche for his offspring. Schoolmasters browse through it to get information about their competitors. But Private Schools' readership is by no means confined to these two classes. Wiseacres know that practically anybody can find something to amuse and instruct him in this fascinating volume, whose 20th Anniversary Edition was published in Boston last week...