Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convening. It would have apartments for Republican officeholders in the Capital, and a special section of the building would be set aside for female Republicans. The undertaking of the project is said to be imminent. Harry M. Daugherty, Edward F. Colladay (Republican National Committeeman for D. C.) and Charles Dick (former Senator from Ohio) are mentioned as "prime movers...
Margery Allingham, the eighteen-year-old novelist whose first book, "Black'er-chief Dick", published by Doubleday, Page & Company, is a swaggering pirate tale of Restoration England, claims as literary godfather the novelist, William McFee. Since her first publishing venture. "The Wag-tail," a magazine written in a penny exercise book for which McFee was foreign correspondent and eight-year-old Margery managing editor, writer of the editorial, short story, serial, answers to correspondents and advertisements, the older writer has followed her career with friendly interest...
Such are a few of Mr. Lawrence's more consecutive pronouncements. He proclaims with some justice Melville's Moby Dick the greatest book of the sea ever written. But he says of Whitman: "Walt's great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...
...Stratemeyer says in his preface: "My Dear Boys . . . This line of books was started years ago with The Rover Boys at School . . . in which I introduced Dick, Tom and Sam Rover and their chums and relatives. . . . Having finished their education, the three young men established themselves in business and became married (to boyhood sweethearts). Later Dick Rover was blessed with a son and daughter, as was also his brother Sam, while the fun-loving Tom became the father of a pair of lively twin boys." Dick, Tom, and Sam now live in adjacent dwellings on Riverside Drive. They would...
...what your boy really likes to read, out of all the world's literature, unless he's a prodigy, and what you liked to read when you were his age. Imagine a family library without at least one volume containing the glorious words "A cooky-prize," cried Dick Rover, "for whoever first sights the old school...