Word: doe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even the voice of the people must have a subject of conversation, precise enough to make argument possible. The oracle continues: I like inanity, I like the innocuous. So Prohibition and personality hold the stage. One man will vote for John P. O'Doe because "he's really a good scout, has made a little money and wants the wife's picture in the papers. You can't blame him." Another votes for Peter P. Pringle, Esq., because "he has his little nip with the boys now and then; a man who will get us drinks if he can Good...
...Babbit is sure that "Alexander Caesar, Attila, Charlemagne, th settlers of Manhattan, and the west" were actuated by the same urge which has recently raised prices in Florida. And it may be said that although Attila and John Doe stand for somewhat different methods of land improvement, it is substantially true that each followed a kindred instinct and urge. In fact economists have long recognized this urge and given it the caption, "land hunger". One may suspect that the term real estate finds company in Mr. Babbit's mind with barbarian transactions chiefly to steady the turbulence of property dealings...
...that is urged upon the reader. The author is so stuffed-to-the-ears with quotable information on his vast array of thobbers that the moderately learned will make heavy weather of his pages if they try to read all. But trust the author of Evolution for John Doe to make his main point clear and entertaining. Leave it to the erudite to plough through the whole book and decide how much is penetrating, how much inane...
...Piper Heidsick; 27, 28, 31 to 34, The Ups and Downers; 29, Great Scot; 35, 37, M. T. Hope; 36; Betty Bronson; 38, G. Silver; 39, The Would-Be-Goods; 40, Joseph Ward; 41 Hal Winston; 42, Centaur; 43, O. Henry (group of two); 44, Paavo Ritola; 45, John Doe; 46, Joe Dokes; 47, Deus faxit; 48, Oliver Joannin; 49, William Peaiso Lowell; 51, Montgomery Ward; 52, Red Mange; 55, Andy and Min 3rd; 56, She and I; 57, Stoughton Hall; 58, Jesse James and Co.; 59, Monsieur Paraclete; 60, Nestor; 61, Goldy and Dusty; 62, Castor and Polux...
...Ward describes the theory, presents the evidence, tells the history of the idea. It takes him 336 pages to put it all down thoroughly, but the style is so crisp and lively, the chapters so economically arranged, the illustrations-verbal and photographic -so clear and well-timed, that Reader Doe will come to the end breathing easily. Particularly lucid is the exposition of chromosomes and the variations they produce; particularly commendable the author's ability to keep his reader im- pressed at all times with the enormous diversity of life and the in- cessant struggle for existence. Reader Doe...