Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Encyclopedia Britannica concurs...
Examine our oft-seen friend the Musical Comedy. She appears endlessly and she is always the same. She goes by every first name in the encyclopedia, but that does not deceive the public. She gets by on her costumes. To be sure it costs her a pretty penny. She spends a hundred thousand dollars on her dresses for this evening, tomorrow ' night her clothes may cost well nigh one hundred and fifty thousand. But why count the cost? The public gladly pays, to watch, twenty?thirty thousand dollars at a sitting...
...Esthonian Encyclopedia...
...curiosity, a quick and imaginative power of relating one statement or idea with another, an orderliness of mind, and a versatile interest. In the part of his library which has recently been given to the University, the most valuable of his books are assembled, and they make up an encyclopedia of knowledge in themselves. His continual "searching for this and that" took other form besides that of book-collecting. His "great anthropomorphological collection", which he began in his early youth and pursued throughout his life, was one of the most original contributions to psychology. A face, a photograph, portrait...
...degree at Yale, There are dozens of successful novels to his credit and at least a half-dozen plays, among them the markedly successful Excuse Me. He has an extraordinary memory for facts and to talk with him is almost like talking to an articulate and well-colored encyclopedia. His ability to create things is due in large measure to his absolute belief that whatever he is doing is worth while. The moving pictures to him are a new art. He is proud to be one of those associated with the early development of this art. That his pictures have...