Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dangerous age. And the reviewer would like to express his conviction that never, not once, has the Lampoon's worst been one half as bad as the very best of most other college comic. Their jejune obscenities can be studied, by any sociologist who will take the trouble to collect an armful of them; and this will be an excellent thing for anyone who has lifted a supercilious eyelid at the peccadilloes of the Lampoon. The nastiness of little boys telling dirty stories in the alley behind the livery stable finds beautiful literary and artistic expression in the humorous papers...
Such was the spectacle which Charles C. Pyle, spectacular sport promoter, announced last week he would try to conduct early in 1928. He went as far as actually posting $25,000 for the winner, promised to collect cash for nine more prizes from cities along the route. The route, obviously, will be determined by the highest bids. The winner will have to average 32 miles a day, estimated Mr. Pyle. The race, said he, was inspired by an Arab messenger (unnamed), who ran 90 miles during the Riff uprising. Anyone of any color, amateur or professional, may enter Mr. Pyle...
...valuable publicity for Hornsby and intense exasperation among the magnates. With the opening of the season a few days away, National League president John A. Heydler issued a ukase that Hornsby could not play ball for the Giants while owning stock in the Cardinals. Hornsby replied that he would collect his salary from the Giants, play or no play; would sell his St. Louis stock for $105 a share. The situation was described as an impasse...
...foodstuffs annually. No doubt, Mr. Sapiro has made a tidy profit from these ventures; no doubt, other Jews as well as farmers have shared. But Mr. Sapiro believes that Mr. Ford's magazine has slandered him and hurt his business. Hence, he filed suit in 1925 to collect $1,000,000 from Mr. Ford. Last week that suit went before the U. S. District Court in Detroit. It may last five weeks or five months. Mr. Sapiro's underlying purposes are three: 1) to put Henry Ford through a thoroughgoing grilling on the witness stand...
...Harvard the great traditions were literary and, in the nineties, art played a minor role. Nevertheless the formation of collections of original works of art began almost with the opening of the building. Charles Eliot Norton, made Professor of Fine Arts in 1875, and Professor Charles Herbert Moore, the first director, began to collect drawings and watercolors of the English School. Greek vases were lend by Edward P. Warren and in 1897 and 1898, the Gray and Rrandall print collections, on loan from Harvard in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, were transferred to the Fogg Museum. Later gifts...