Word: folios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ankles, gaiety and high notes are blended most pleasantly in the folio wing :The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Cocoanuts, Artists and Models, The Student Prince, The Vanities, Tip-Toes, No, No, Nanette...
...whole duty of airplanes is now made manifest, in 52 folio pages, compiled, examined and approved by expert engineers, designers and men of the air. Last week H. M. Crane, General Motors technician and chairman of a joint committee of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and the Society of Automotive Engineers, announced completion of the "aircraft safety code." A five-year labor, the code includes regulations for the design, manufacture, testing and operation of all types of craft, qualifications for pilots, traffic rules...
SERENA BLANDISH-A Lady of Qual-ity- Doran ($2.50). "Though it is better to marry a young man, best to marry a rich man, next best to marry a distinguished man, it is better to marry a crossing sweeper than not to marry at all," said Countess Flor di Folio to Serena Blandish when, struck by the girl's beauty, poverty and discretion, she made her a member of her household and launched her upon her desperate enterprise. She met many men who made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena...
...exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs by John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took part, and delightful models of the old theatres which help to swell the interest in this section. The pictures merely serve for a comparison of English Art with itself. Particularly, a comparison of the immediate predecessors...
Milton's political and theological pamphlets are especially rich in first editions, Anti--Episcopal treatises, and Pamphlets on the Revolution, including his famous "Areopagitica". There is also a facsimile of the second folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1932, containing Milton's "Epitaph on Shakespeare", his first production to appear in print...