Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Department of Justice secured an indictment from a Federal grand jury in Manhattan. It made the beginning of another chapter in the great volume of charges, trials and scandals growing...
Editor Duncan Aikman and the jounalists and novelists who compiled The Taming follow Mr. White's lead in being ingenuously shocking and satirically humorous. Idwal Jones' chapter on the guerilla artists of San Francisco's old Barbary Coast is one of the best. There is Jacques, chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill...
...Another chapter came to light in the exoteric history of "Margery" (Mrs. L. R. G. Crandon), Boston medium...
...fact that the seventh day was stated to be a day of rest has no bearing upon the length of other days. I have no doubt that the man who made that chapter of Genesis had in his mind days of twenty-four hours each, but I reserve for myself the right to make my own interpretation of the meaning of words, as does every Christian, trivialist or modernist...
There is a galloping chapter on "Sporting Books." "Skinner Street News" touches on the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley group. Dickensians will relish "The Greatest Little Book in the World." But a particular interest is unnecessary for lively enjoyment of any of these papers; the wide knowledge they reflect is so unassuming, so humanized, so colored by the author's manifold personality...