Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...
William Johnston, whose new mystery novel. "The Waddington Cipher." (Doubleday, Page & Co.), is the first story that has ever been serialized over the radio, holds a unique newspaper position as suggestion editor or official idea man to the New York World. His work is to anticipate public interest--to guess what will interest newspaper readers, not only today, but tomorrow and next week. This position with no detail duties and freedom to scout all over the world for suggestions that will add interest to any department of the paper, has shaped itself out of the variety of new ideas that...
...kind. On the whole, we don't believe you'd count an evening at "The Dancing Girl" wasted. By the way, the final seene was omitted on the first night. It may have had some good points. The program called it "Venetia at the Ball." You may guess what that signifies for yourself
...breakdown and then, while recuperating, a young and comely bride (Claire Windsor). But when the medico returns to his work, the bride is sort of neglected-and turns, as subtitles say, to the doctor's scamp of an adopted son for light amusement: It is not difficult to guess what happens next and whether the picture ends happily...
While the surrender is unconditional and only a general statement has been issued, there will certainly come new negotiations with the Allies. What the French attitude will be is hardly a matter of guess-work. Though not to the same extent France as well as Germany has suffered by the occupation. Now that victory has come at last she is hardly likely to soften the rigor of her demands. She will continue her occupation of the Ruhr until she achieves her hopes or until she is forced by circumstances to alter her present attitude. England's attitude is a constant...