Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back because they have records to show they spent two dollars on a soldier. Compiling the records was clever and their other stories are as interesting as Hans C. Andersen's but, like the latter's, was meant for children. Why study mass-psychology to find out why -Obscenity deleted. the Y charged six francs for cigarettes when the army canteen across the street charged five? At Montfalcon they even charged a wounded man (stretcher case) for cigarettes and by God he had to pay before he got them-correction, a shavetail did the paying; the buck didn...
...mountain, there remain a few short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through the villages. We venture the prophecy that by the time Mount Weather is fitted for Presidential occupancy the White House chauffeur will have to go out of his way to find a mudpuddle even after a summer thunder shower. TIME'S road map is out of date. WELLS A. SHERMAN...
...leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...
...subject. There is evident, indeed, in these two works the difference between two methods of biographical or semi-biographical exposition. Mr. Ravage is essentially the popularizer leaving out of the picture much that goes to make a complete panorama of the times and relations in which his central characters find themselves; Count Corti is essentially the historian, realizing the important part which character and heredity play in the lives of his subjects, but seeing also the great significance which many of the contemporary political events and personalities of which Mr. Ravage takes comparatively little notice, have in forming a complete...
...subject in which he becomes keenly interested individually; as the classics, poetry, or the theatre. Consider the man interested in the theatre. He can easily acquire first editions of nearly all the few great plays of the last twenty-five years. In collecting these, he is almost certain to find one author whose work will interest him more than the others. Now he is experiencing his first real thrill in the effort to procure everything published by this particular author. Here also begins the storing up of those little bibliographical details which lend zest to the hunt. The fancy...