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As to plot, Dr. Gentian nurses a nice insanity to be King of the Floridas, while the passion of his daughter is to be a queen, preferably piratical, with the misbegotten brute who appeals to her inherited taste for coarse-grained erotics. When the hero, young Andrew Beard of New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

Cattaloes. Purpospful breeding has increased Canada's dwindling buffalo herd from a few score head to over 11,000. In Buffalo Park, at Wainwright, Alberta, some of the shaggy loggerheads were experimentally crossed with Angus, Hereford and shorthorn cows. The resultant "cattaloes" grew up thick-hided, long-haired, with all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cattalo | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

In the latter-connection, it may be of interest to give a few illustrations of the old adage, "There is nothing new under the sun," For instance, how many people know that many years before the discovery of America, the Indians inhabiting the area now known as New England had...

Author: By Charles CLARK Willoughby, | Title: DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES SHOWN BY PEABODY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS | 5/5/1922 | See Source »

In "America Passes By" a missionary's daughter and a young man, thrown together in Tokio where they see scarcely any of their own race, have become lovers. When the play begins they are visiting friends of the young man, a newly-married couple in Chicago. Here they find their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAISE FOR DRAMATIC CLUB | 4/12/1916 | See Source »

Certain work has been omitted from the contract, such as interior wood finish, wall decorations, diffusing sash (which will be used in the vestibule, the first story of the main hall, the Widener Room, Memorial Hall, and the hall in front of the main reading-room). The marble work will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTRACT FOR NEW LIBRARY | 12/9/1912 | See Source »

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