Word: cataloging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because a person can be more disrespectful in paint than in print, Nightmare of 1934 proceeded at once to make lively news. In the exhibition's catalog Manhattan newshawks discovered that the playful Jere Miah had placed the initials P. W. A. after his name. Everyone wanted to know the identity of the ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged...
...automobile magnate's office, a department store, a beauty products laboratory, a baby food company, a pencil company, a film office, the Society of Authors and a boarding house. Resembling magazine rolls, two were opened and detonated, wounding three postal clerks and an automobile employe. Wrapped in the catalog of a St. Etienne munitions firm, each bomb contained the message: "We will strike the French people without distinction as to age. sex or rank, until they realize their cowardice, before the great pirates deprive them of the right to be severe toward ordinary criminals and stealers of handkerchiefs...
Last week Dean Robert Kilburn Root announced that, beginning next autumn, Princeton will have a "hospital for the illiterate," listed in the catalog as "Corrective English." There the freshman whose back is stronger than his syntax will spend eight weeks. If still unable to write a "decent English sentence," he will repeat the course in second term. There will be two more chances in sophomore year. If he persists in failure, the halls of Princeton will see him no more...
...jury which included Amelia Earhart Putnam, Madam Secretary Perkins (who voted by mail from a catalog) and Professor John Dewey found most beautiful a section of spring, an outboard propeller, a ring of ball bearings. The voting public chose a larger propeller, a triple mirror, a metal measure...
...state and lead the life of a normal western youth. As the last of the conquering Manchus that ruled China since 1644 it was his duty to have at least two wives. He did not want two wives, for he had already picked a beautiful bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth was quite sufficient but on the insistence of his Japanese "protectors" in Tientsin Henry took Wife...