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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process. Preparation of the cotton fibre for weaving is a complicated process with too many operations involved. Present mills are seeing and will see a good many simplifications and combinations of these spinning operations (occurring prior to the spooling & warping mentioned above). You might call attention to the above. Correct it on the part of Sherwood Anderson as he is undoubtedly to blame - I noted the same error in a recent issue of Vanity Fair...
...little lamb. Even in old age, his mind seemed as fresh, eager and naive as that of the 12-year-old lad who had started hustling. He chortled before telling a joke. With innocent seriousness he would enter a public discussion with such pronouncements as "Prohibition is eternally correct." His love of asking questions was fully expressed in the terms of his scholarship examinations to choose youngsters to carry on his work (TIME...
...this is correct I should suggest when the syndicate incorporates they select the name of "The Benedict Arnold Racing Club...
...suggests a vacation week of exhilaration in the White Mountains when the leaves are red and the air sparkling, I should like especially to express my regret that the only dates I am just now able to permit myself are with an osteopath (male), who has undertaken to correct a tendency to senile lumbago...
...general the book is factually correct, no matter what the deductions. In one detail, however, the author's cocky memory tricked him. He refers to "a legend that a Mr. Astor, a cattle merchant, fed his stock great quantities of water just before he drove them to market. . . . His 'watered stock' made him rich." The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries...