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...earliest specimen of more than 1,515 books, pamphlets, and papers printed in Europe before 1500 now in possession of the University, is St. Thomas Acquinas "Summa de Articulis Fidei," printed at Mains about 1460. There are several excellent Florentine and Venetian books and a perfect copy of Caxton's "Royal Book" printed in 1487 in England. There is also a Hebrew Bible, printed in Lisbon in 1490, and several Spanish items...
PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT - Vardis Fisher-Caxton & Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). If the last two volumes of his tetralogy are on a par with the first two (In Tragic Life-TIME, July 3; Passions Spin the Plot}. U. S. critics will be speaking of Idaho's Author Vardis Fisher in the same breath with Indiana's Theodore Dreiser. No less doggedly candid than Dreiser but a more artful writer, Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows...
...will not be the least. The first volume of his projected four shows enough of his hand to indicate that he will have to be reckoned with. In Tragic Life is not his first novel nor is this its first edition: it was published early this year by Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho. Readers whose stomachs cannot stand strong meat had better not dip in here, but for those who can, its morbidly realistic sauce will not conceal its true tragic flavor...
Strengthened by his enemies' foul play, but still doubtful of what lay in store, Stanley Baldwin went to Caxton Hall. The big Conservative meeting rose and cheered him while Baron Beaverbrook glowered. Attempting to defend Leader Baldwin, loyal Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham unwittingly disclosed the real temper of the conclave when, at the conclusion of his speech, he asked, indicating Mr. Baldwin, "Who is there to take his place...
...Caxton Hall, London, Mr. Baldwin began his fight with a vigor and alertness which flabbergasted as much as it pleased his friends. As Prime Minister the shaggy sheep dog was often lazy, muddling and inept-sometimes disgracefully so. On a public platform during the "Lord's Prayer," he would fiddle with his notes twitch his nose or scratch his ear (instead of praying), and later he would cross one leg over the other and look bored (instead of standing on both feet and joining in "God Save the King"). Indeed as Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin resembled exactly an amiable...