Word: clothings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicious morsels of fictious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read it in youth and age--we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."--Sir Walter Scott. Large quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Published at $20.00. Constable, Ltd., London. Special Price...
...globe, Shakespeare added something to her domain; he found the Forest of Arden, The Witch-haunted Scottish Heath, The Magic Isle of Prospero, and together with these in the Midsummer Night's Dream, he enters what was the most marvellous realm of its kind, the Fairy World. Large 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Constable, Ltd., London. Published at $3.75. Special price...
...story of Aucassin and Nicolette was unknown to the general reader in England until Walter Pater first published his "Renaissance." Today it is known and ready by all and is considered the best love story in the world. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.50. Special price...
...arguing? There is no use in arguing. Either you smoke and are blessed, or you don't smoke and resort to plebiscites. Suppose smoke, fire and ashes do get into non-smokers' eyes? Where there is smoke there must naturally be fire, cinders, grit, stains on the table cloth, pipe cleaners on the piano, matches in the bread box, and ashes everywhere. They are the cloud of glory the smoker trails after him. They are the outer and visible signs of an inner peace beyond description...
...secretary of the Central Federated Union, sees in the widespread unemployment the direct result of a conspiracy to force labor to take what work and wages it can get. "I am not a prophet," he says, "so I cannot say what the end will be. . . Take the cloth and hat and cap makers, for instance. This is usually the busiest time of the year for them, but three-quarters of them are out of work. . . . What does this mean? To me it seems to be but the beginning...