Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarship, I remember walking with him into the cathedral library in Exeter when he demanded that the librarian show him the famous Exeter Book, an Anglo-Saxon classic and great literary treasure nearly 700 years old. Before the librarian, Rev. Dr. Bishop, could produce the book from the safe, my friend repeated its first hundred lines in Anglo-Saxon entirely from memory, sweeping the librarian quite off his feet with astonishment...
...officer who had fought before Verdun, came with the shock of revelation. Few months later a much wider U. S. audience was discovering The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Though it never became such an enormous seller as All Quiet on the Western Front, it soon ranked as a modern classic, has sold nearly 250,000 copies in English translation alone. Those two novels (both German) were generally admitted to be the best produced by the war. Last week appeared Sergeant Grischa's companion-piece, Education Before Verdun. Like its predecessor, it was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month...
...philosopher who swung the Irish vote of Northampton, Mass, to Calvin Coohdge in the mayoralty race of 1910, thus helped win Cooliydge his first important political office; in Northampton, Mass. "guide philosopher & friend" to the 30th President, he received the first letter Coolidge wrote from the White House. His classic advice: "Don't say nothin...
...published, to the War, Laurence Greene's greatest difficulty was to stick to the red-letter historical events, avoid the temptation to wander down fascinating journalistic bypaths. Last week Laurence Greene's historical newspaper scrapbook, America Goes to Press* was published. Of his collection of such classic U. S. front-page stones as the Battle of Trenton, Lee's Surrender at Appomattox, the Chicago Fire, the Custer Massacre, Author Greene explains: "Ours is a bloody history, and blood often makes the best Extras...
...modification of the old "Pittsburgh Plus" plan. Carefully nurtured by U.S. Steel's late Elbert Gary, Pittsburgh Plus worked on the simple principle of charging every buyer the price of steel in Pittsburgh, plus freight to his door, regardless of where the steel was made. Thus in one classic example soon after the War, when the Pittsburgh price was $40 per ton, a Chicago concern was paying $47.60 for steel made by its next door neighbor. The additional $7.60 represented freight charges on a ton of steel from Pittsburgh to Chicago. The steel actually purchased was trundled through...