Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...florid son-in-law took Rosamond and the professor's wife abroad; St. Peter escaped the jaunt with difficulty. He edited Outland s diary of the year in the cliff city, wrote a foreword and lay through long thoughtful evenings on his old box couch, covered with Tom's Navajo saddle-blanket. There was a high wind the night he had a cable from his returning wife, blew out the gas in the leaky heater. St. Peter smelled the room filling and wondered if he was obliged to save his life, now that it seemed so completed...
...Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical but practical explanation of the broad technique essential to impromptu cantatas-"swipes," "seventh heaven," "amen corner," Russian depths and breath control. Most important are the actual scores of a dozen much-mangled tunes and the standard words, disputes over which have rent...
...once the business partner of Weber and Fields. With them he ran the Broadway Theatre, Manhattan, and produced many successes. They begged him to write this book about them. When it ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, Wesley W. Stout was given credit as joint author. In the foreword Mr. Isman (an Elk, a Mason, now a realtor) thanks Mr. Stout for his assistance...
Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe?Etchers and Etching. Writing it, gall scored his pen; gloom puckered his mouth. In his foreword, he denounces, derides all others who have written about etching. The curator of prints in the British Museum, he is demolished; "poor old Hamerton" (Hamerton whose works have long been the only authority on etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching...
There is a foreword to this excellent list. It has a quotation from Emerson, "In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." There is a quotation from Charles Kingsley that books open their hearts to us as brothers. The foreword is an honest and genial invitation to buy books. But there imbedded in its midst is that, wayward word "catalog." No U, no E. just og. On the outside of the list, the same atrocity occurs. No U, no E. just...