Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bibles may be imported into the U. S. without payment of customs duties. Other books are taxed at the rate of 15%. In 1924 Lincoln MacVeagh, president of the Dial Press, brought one copy of the Apocrypha of the Nonesuch Bible to the U. S. from England and was taxed thereon 15%. Saying that the books of the Apocrypha were parts of the Bible, Mr. MacVeagh sued the U. S. to get back his money...
ALICE IN THE DELIGHTED STATES-Edward Hope-Lincoln MacVeagh, Dial Press...
...HOTEL-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press ($2.50). The stagnant monotony of English middle class vacation has crept into this reflection on the malign chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when...
...Bailey seems to advocate a kind of half-hearted compromise: And in this, the present reviewer believes him to be mistaken, There are plenty of undergraduates who are keenly interested in "aesthetic outpourings", or stuff after the manner of the Dial. The undergraduate is not afraid of literature. Bad literature, yes: but that is another matter. The trouble with most college literary magazines is that they do try to compromise--that they are timid, and afraid (this fear itself being philistine) to go all out for literary distinction. Playing safe, they achieve a kind of dreary neutrality...
...other contributors, not quite so much can be said. They play safe, they do not aim so high, and they fail, in consequence, to be very interesting. Life--one keeps thinking as one reads them--surely must mean more to them than this? And one turns back to the Dial, even in its wildest moments, with that sense of relief that one finds in the actual