Word: fats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...upon to advertise in these books with the promise that in this manner they would succeed in getting the bulk of the student trade. These publications, they were informed, came out early in the school year, in an edition of about 3500 or 5000 copies. As a matter of fat, the books were issued as late as April 20, in an edition of 300 to 500 copies. And they did not contain one-sixth of the information the merchants were assured they would...
Here is a number of the Monthly to make the heart of an ex-editor glad, not only because the number provides interesting entertainment, but because it is so joyously youthful and so youthfully sincere. The spirit that founded the Monthly, and through lean and fat years kept it true to its old gods, is in these pages--the love of literature and life; of beauty, of humanity, of song; of quiet nature and of outlandish romance; of all those things, in fact, which a man, when he is but just become a man, yields to as he never will...
...better reading than the Monthly ought to look at Mr. C. V. Wright's essay, "A Lost Art". He champions the old Gregorian music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel in his helpful "note" on Strindberg,--which...
...opened by President Taft's pressing a solid ivory button in the Pink Room of the White House promptly at 9 P. M. tomorrow night. In the Dining Room of the Union, many sideshows will burst into life, the African Dodger will resound with the lusty spheroids, and the Fat Lady will draw in a long breath. A continuous amateur pie-eating contest will provide many opportunities for skill and capacity, and there will be other games where magnificent prizes reward the successful. The great Siberian Sea-Serpent vies with the Tattooed Albino, and the Empire City Quartet with Signor...