Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is, of course, the professional haunter of the bookshops and stalls-the man who lounges and reads. He starts at the first shop with the first chapter, proceeds to the next for the second, and so on until the book may be discarded for another. His method has all the charm of stolen fruits, all the elusive precariousness that arises from the imminent possibility of the last copy being sold under his very pince-nez. He may be seen by the hundred in the second-hand bookshops of Fourth Avenue, the fantastic bookshops of Greenwich Village, the tradition-hallowed...
...collaborator and widow, Marie Sklodowska Curie. Fortunately this greatest and most modest of living women has at last been prevailed upon to set down, not only a narrative of her husband's life?, but extensive autobiographical notes, without which the story would be a truncated cone. It contains a chapter on her American visit of 1921, and an illuminating introduction by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, former editor of The Delineator, who conceived and engineered Mme. Curie's trip and the raising by American women of $100,000 to purchase a gram of radium to be presented (by President Harding...
When the last outline of history is written, the chapter on exploration will owe much of its material to the deeds of men inspired by Jack London and by the famous Traprock, skipper of the good ship, "Kawa." Only a few weeks ago a Frenchman sailed across the Atlantic in a thirty-foot sloop, inspired, as he said, by London's "Cruise of the Shark," and unconsciously perhaps by the romantic voyage of the Kawa into the South Seas. And now three more intrepid spirits, two of them graduates of the University, are planning a trip to the fever-haunted...
...historian may add a footnote to his chapter on the 68th Congress, to the effect that it brought to Washington Henry R. Rathbone, Representative at large from Illinois. His grandfather was Ira Harris, Senator from New York, and his father, General Rathbone, was seriously wounded in the defense of a President...
...Springfield Central High School of Springfield has won this year for the fourth time the Interscholastic Scholarship Trophy, which the University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa annually awards to the preparatory school whose students make the best average record in the examinations for admission to the college...