Word: flyleaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of choosing suitable royalty to adorn the frontispiece has become even more difficult. After 166 years of continuous publishing the editors decorated the flyleaf of the 1929 volume with the likeness of Amanullah of Afghanistan. Scarcely had the presses stopped rolling than Amanullah abdicated, fled his country, became the scandal of European chancellories...
They heard a symphony which has for its scope the story of the development of America, the definition of its powers. "O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come...
...HAWK-Robert W. Chambers-Appleton ($2.00). For years Author Chambers has dominated the realm of high romance. His present flyleaf lists two columns of unaccountably sound-sellers, many of which have dealt with cloak and sword, picturesque oaths and spirited ladies. Louis XIV being his favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly...
...world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could...
...epigrams. Sometimes they achieve their most beautiful thoughts in these short, effortless three or four lines. Thus Landor like, Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and mystic, in his sixty-seventh year has compiled such a collection which he calls FIREFLIES (Macmillan Co., New York, 1928, $2.50). On the flyleaf is Tagore's explanatory inscription, "Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting of fans and pieces of silk...