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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tyranny. George became a painter, and, in revolt against his parents' ideas, contracted a free and childless union with Elizabeth. Later, when she mistakenly believed herself pregnant, he married her. They agreed that each should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went to War, quixotically enlisting as a private. When he returned on leave, exhausted with hardship and tension, he could no longer take his share in the smart, arty conversations of his set, and found both Elizabeth and Fanny...
...make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut was an ordeal. But stern fellows like Oscar Thompson of the Evening Post and Richard L. Stokes of the Evening World...
Philadelphia. Magazines packed in bundles of five averaged 25? the bundle. All this seemed very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman...
...skilled workmen, who joined them together that you might have this record of their ideas and ideals, their doubts and convictions, their theories and experiences. They have unrolled a prospect wide and various across these one hundred and sixty pages, and they have adorned them with truth, as they found it, and with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary Editor of the New York Evening Sun; Psychologist Joseph Jastrow; Financier Matthew S. Sloan. President of the New York...
...Legends that the mongoose crossbreeds with rats, that it can hypnotize a snake with its glassy stare (or vice versa), are groundless. But because mongooses eat rats, mice and large insects, in addition to snakes and birds and their eggs, they have been found useful. Indian natives keep them as protective house pets...