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...better than the papers of Hearst, whose jingoism touched it off. Its circulation swelled to more than half a million. But when Hearst forced Bennett to stop publishing a hugely profitable page of classified ads inserted by prostitutes (the columns were nicknamed "The Whores' Daily Guide & Compendium") the paper went into a decline. In 1920, the limping Herald (along with the Evening Telegram and the Paris Herald) was sold for $4,000,000. Bennett had been dead for less than two years...
...resort hotel when the I.L.G.W.U. heard of his talent for grinding out entertainment for the guests. He agreed to write songs for the union's review, and the next four years he turned out four different versions of Pins and Needles. The Columbia album is "a compendium of the best" from each edition...
Majesty & Love. But Barth's greatest service has been to those who are most likely to listen to him: the committed believers. His Dogmatics is the most exhaustive compendium of what a Christian must believe, and why he believes it, that Protestantism has had in more than a century. Barth's insistence on the supreme majesty of God and His supreme love in Christ has forced Christian thought to reconsider its basic focus. His demand that theology is necessarily church theology has caused Protestantism to take a new look at the confessions it stands by, and has thereby...
...perfume on the stationery of the Ritz. But literary style can't be photographed, and in other respects the novel is sort of a mess. The plot is often gappy and sometimes sappy; the characters are superficially silly and fundamentally unreal. The intellectual apparatus of the tale-a compendium of cocktail party chatter about psychiatry-is almost pathetic. What's more, in the film the 18-to-29-year-old heroine is played by 42-year-old Jennifer Jones...
...edition. For years, Webster's unabridged has listed more words than any dictionary in any language. Now, because of scientific arrivistes to the English vocabulary (like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis) Webster's no longer commands the serious interest of English readers, who must forever regret the loss of the convenient one-volume compendium they once relied...