Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come 10,000 miles from its northern worm, raw silk and silk goods, silk for hose and gown and pajama and whatnot. Chinese had tended it; Japanese had borne it across the Pacific of which commerce they are masters. It had arrived at Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.'s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only...
...language books and periodicals in the world." Asked the purpose of the merger, Frank N. Doubleday said: "To sell more books." Many years ago an office boy for the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, dreamed a dream. Thirty years ago (in 1897) he saw his dream come true. Frank N. Doubleday (with $25,000 borrowed money) had established a concern for the dissemination of books. George Henry Doran also was a stubbornly ambitious office boy- in Toronto and Chicago publishing houses. In 1909 he founded his own publishing company. The new Doubleday, Doran & Co. proposes...
...Moreover Author Lehmann writes with a sensitive and fine precision, she betrays in herself an exquisite perception of subtleties in her characters-most marked when she is writing about children. Readers may well suppose that Author Lehmann wisely creates out of her own experiences. Like Judith Earle she has come early to an artist's isolation, her past has already made the "one great circle." Then to the question "What next?" her book is the answer-dusty like an insect's wings with a curious bright bloom of sudden wisdom and golden wonder. The Author. Author Lehmann...
...Tell It To Sweeney", the Conklin-Bancroft opus at the Metropolitan this week, depicts the trials and tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience...
...Essenz a rather masculine name?" timidly inquired the reporter. "My friends call me Essenezza of course," she said, "but you, young man are," and the rest of her remarks were too pointed to be repeated. "Yes," she went on, "I intend to handle the new candidates personally when they come around this evening, and I intend to start a campaign for supplying better bird seed to the Freshman Dining Halls...