Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike the Almanach de Gotha's authors, who maintain a ponderous delitescence, are the British editors of Jane's Fighting Ships. They preface their pages of photographs, statistics and "recognition silhouettes" of the world's warships with a brief foreword reviewing the year's progress in warship building, the outlook for the year to come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations...
BORN To BE-Taylor Gordon-Covici-Friede ($4). (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten; Foreword by Muriel Draper; Illustrations by Covarrubias...
There is something of a mystery surrounding the name of Cerio too, but that is quickly dispelled by Francis Brett Young in his foreword. Mr. Young makes it quite evident that no one but Edwin Cerio could have written this book of witty, provocative and occasionally Rubelaisian episodes in the life of Capri. And Col. Fitzhugh L. Minnegerode assures us that this Cerio is known as "Tutelary genius of Capri," and Capri, in turn, is known as "Cerio's Property." Capri is also known to some as "the Mecca of Malcontents" but at all events, here are four...
...interstate transmission of electricity and therefore no Federal problem, calling for Federal investigation and regulation. The report fitted so happily with the tactics of the power interests that there were queries later as to the origin of the study and the explanation of its peculiar limitations. In a Foreword the report states. "In making this study the Bureau had the complete co-operation of the National Electric Light Association... The costs incurred in conducting the survey were defrayed by the Association...
...sturries, pomes, end ferry tails vot yu'll gonna reeding onder diss cower" writes Mr. Burbig in a foreword, "vas ritten by mine own hends, s'halp me Goldberg." After one has read a few of the "sturries etc" one begins to wonder. Was Milt Gross name originally Goldberg? If not, why does Mr. Burbig invoke that name? For certainly Milt Gross is the patron saint of this book, the captain under whose banner its writer has drawn his pen and whose exploits he endeavors, insofar as in him lies, to emulate...