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Back in the era of good Queen Victoria, there was really only one place to live in Chicago-and that was on the South Side. New York had its brownstone fronts and Fifth Avenue chateaux, but Chicago had only its sprawling gingerbread Gothic and its Prairie Avenue. Sooty railroads, industry, and worst of all, the "black belt" began to creep up to the gingerbread creations. Society surrendered. It began an exodus to the North Side -to Lake Shore Drive, Astor Street, Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. Not so, Julius Rosenwald-he would stand by the South Side. He did not object...
Around the camp lodge are several log cook-houses, where some of the American delegates made gingerbread for scout leaders from Poland and Latvia. All over the 281-acre camp tents were pitched where the leaders slept, even on a wet rainy night which fell during the conference. One of the youngest leaders, a 19-year-old girl from Latvia, was afraid and wanted to be locked in one of the cabins for the night so as to be safe from Indians. Mrs. Wynaendts-Francken of Holland, relative of Edward Bok, went about in the mud wearing sabots. A young...
...atmosphere and attitude of both book and author can be summed up in one of Caleb's own speeches; and if in literature, as in shipbuilding, there were more thorough, sincere productions of this sort, more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman...
...Craig Prize Play, "Believe Me, Xantippe," by J. F. Ballard, A.M. '11, will be produced by the Castle Square Theatre Company after the run of its Christmas play, "The Gingerbread Man," which goes on the boards next week. Last year the Christmas play ran for something over a month, so that "Believe Me, Xantippe" may be looked for in February...
...miserable gingerbread covers put on the standard books so temptingly displayed in the dollar stores surely add nothing to their value. In England the same books in plain paper covers sell at about one fourth the price. Few college men there are but would like to read and own many capital books, but are deterred from buying by the $2.50 regular price, even with a mysterious "trade," "cash," and "personal favor" deduction reducing...