Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take down the "Fourth Eclectic" from the shelf, used in grammar schools. Here are ninety selections in prose and poetry. Familiar names catch the eye, Celia Thaxter Lucy Larcom, J. T. Trowbridge, James Buchanan Road, Lowell, Longfellow. Here is a part of the Sermon On the Monat. There is a scene from Tom Brown's Schooldays and again a part of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy. Here also...
...GRAMMAR OF LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Smith & Haas ($2). Ten characteristic short stories by the author of The Gentleman from San Francisco and 1933 winner of the Nobel Prize...
...Born in the little town of Olive Oil. New Jersey, in 1912, Mr. Grabblestump passed an uneventful childhood spending his summers in Sidetrack, Connecticut, or Bar Harbor, and his winters in grammar school or the Reformatory. A common or garden variety of child was he, the kind that hides his food under his knife to feel his mother. His career in the secondary scats of learning was also uneventful, its monotonous rhythm being broken only by occasional changes of school on request of the headmasters, and flying visits to the jailhouse. Entering college Carlos ran for a while like...
...such a contemporary, conversational tone Robert Graves writes his historical novel about the Emperor Claudius (B. C. 10-A. D. 54). Readers for whom the life of ancient Rome has been mummified by academic historians, museums and Latin grammar will give Author Graves a rising vote of thanks. He has done what few historians can do by making a complicated period of history as exciting, as plausible, as a well-told story...
Portland, Ore., pure in morals if not in grammar, last week put into effect a new ordinance for places of amusement: "No floor entertainer shall be permitted to in any way come in physical contact with any patron." Object: to keep night club hostesses out of the laps of businessmen...