Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravure-printed tabloid of 24 pages. It contains information about food, cinema, radio, fashions, cosmetics, also many illustrated jokes, fiction, advertising at $400 a page for separate units (Manhattan as one unit, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore as the others) or $700 a page for entire coverage. Such a compendium might be very sad were it not for the fact that Harry Evans writes most of the copy. It is a one-man magazine. He has a tremendous talent for making people like him, and among those who do are most of the nation's electric-lit names. He works hard...
...From Yesterday (Paramount). Like Bachelor's Affairs, this picture has a familiar plot but it has no spontaneity. It is a compendium of old stories about the War and Enoch Arden. Clive Brook and Claudette Colbert act it as though they were in a trance and if you enter the theatre in the middle of the picture you half expect them to wake up suddenly and discover that they have just been dreaming. Nothing of the sort occurs. Clive Brook is a British officer. Presently he is reported dead. Miss Colbert is his wife. She bears...
Just Fishing is a compendium of ways & means of catching trout, bass, pike and lesser U. S. fish, annotated with incidents from Author Ray Bergman's copious fishing notebooks. Unlike most expert anglers. Author Bergman considers worm-fishing for trout permissible, particularly ! for beginners. He starts his book with a chapter telling how to do it. An expert worm fisherman told him how to bait the hook: " 'Catch hold of the skin at two places . . . so the ends will wiggle. Some fellers claim that the point of the hook showin' scares the fish but that...
Last March Washington co-eds gained permission to smoke cigarets, but not on dance floors. A famed Washington professor is Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig, gynecologist, who last year published a learned compendium on abortion (TIME...
...Horace Lorimer of Saturday Evening Post was able to lead off his April 2 issue with an up-to-the-moment article?a "last talk" with the late Ivar Kreuger, recorded by his good friend & admirer, Isaac Frederick Marcosson, able tycoon interviewer. Although the "last talk" was an innocuous compendium of Herr Kreuger's views on international finance, its publication indirectly certified the aura of greatness surrounding the matchmaker and moneylender who had shot himself (TIME, March...