Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garden City, Long Island, was produced a book. It was the first book bred by the massive merger (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927) of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...
...Onetime conductor with the Chicago Civic Opera; with Covent Garden, London...
...social manifestations . of this kind appealed to Charlie Miller as well as to the frowsy "bummers" infesting the upper galleries. In those days a frowsy bought one ticket and stayed all week; it was an inexpensive method of keeping warm; sociable and slightly alcoholic. Nowadays the new Madison Square Garden is cleared out early each morning. Also, society has now discovered the six day race. "Get your gloves on, Shelmerdene, we're going to be boisterous at the bicycle races." That sort of thing depresses Charlie Miller...
...riders broke records and bones; the spectators screamed contentedly; one man was gloomy. He was Charlie Miller, winner of the last one-man six-day race, held in old Madison Square Garden in 1898. Charles Miller rode 2,007 miles in six days, taking nine hours, 15 minutes sleep. The winning two-man team last week rode 2,522 miles. When one grew tired he hopped off his wheel and went to bed, and his partner went riding on. When Charlie Miller tired he kept on pumping; he pumped until exhaustion so overcame him he fell off his cycle...
...merit it. The writers now living whom the majority would grant the title may be counted on the fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered in the secrecy of an English garden. Beside him how does Miss Loos, how does even Mr. Galsworthy, in spite of his splendid achievements, stand...