Word: chap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consisting of 218 books, 25 posters, 17 issues of a literary magazine called The Chap-Book, it includes most of the works published between 1893 and 1905 by the late great Chicago publishing house of Stone & Kimball (later Herbert S. Stone & Co.).* To a generation that looks to the East for intelligent publishing, the story of this output is provocative...
...published a 5? guide to the Chicago World's Fair, written and illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Joaquin Miller George Santayana. In 1894 they moved to Chicago. Their house organ was a little magazine called The Chap-Book dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." Within the next few years they had introduced to U. S. readers such little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets...
...Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark. Year following came the sensational Story of Mary MacLane. Then Publisher Stone decided to cut corners, pay less attention to experimental writers, add cheap reprints, and he published a magazine called The House Beautiful. (The Chap-Book had folded in the Spanish-American War.) Four years later with "nothing of importance coming out," Publisher Stone sold his tottering business to a now-extinct Manhattan publisher...
Before the House stretched a week's brass-knuckle debate. Until the last chap ter, the Senate's had been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words...
...pale the old chap went, that poor old Mr. John, When sentries stood before the British Concession! He ground what teeth he had, and stripped right to the skin; That wasn't nice for him-ha! ha! in Tientsin...