Word: im
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Damrosch raised his arm and thereafter the assembled audience listened intently for a considerable time. They heard pinguid plati- tudes of the symphonic concert hall resuscitated; they heard discreet echoes of Tschaikowsky, of Stravinsky, of Rachmaninov; they heard sentimental melodies in pseudo-jazz they heard the anxiously im- mature opus of a youth who-no longer child of the Cyclades and of Broadway-has become an earnest aspirant for musical respectability. There was nothing daring, nothing racy, nothing even individual Law- rence Gilman said...
...lively, the chapters so economically arranged, the illustrations-verbal and photographic -so clear and well-timed, that Reader Doe will come to the end breathing easily. Particularly lucid is the exposition of chromosomes and the variations they produce; particularly commendable the author's ability to keep his reader im- pressed at all times with the enormous diversity of life and the in- cessant struggle for existence. Reader Doe is most likely a memtally-gregarious animal. It should excite him not a little to read this able book and realize that of all the creatures he has learned about...
...Britain exported 1,000,000 tons less steel than in 1913, and im- ported 200,000 tons more. For the twelve months ending in May, 1925, Britain's steel imports cost her $100,000,000. Meanwhile the cost of doles and pensions has shot up from about 5c a ton in 1913 to $1.75 per ton today...
...Minnesota Infantry and was made its Colonel, only to resign and enlist as a private in the Artillery Corps of the Regular Army where he remained until the end of the War. The job of Solicitor General consists chiefly in representing the Government before the courts in certain more im- portant cases. The Solicitor General makes frequent appearances before the Supreme Court. When Mr. Mitchell went before the court last week, he scanned the faces of nine Justices and certainly recognized one of them-the face of Mr. Pierce Butler of Minnesota- certainly - because Mr. Pierce Butler before...
Stella inevitably revenged her kind by plunging Savaron down the abyss of sex. Writing his autobiography afforded him a ledge to cling to tem- porarily. Then that crumbled and he dreamed dizzily of himself as im- prisoned by the Winkelbergs, craning out of a lopsided tenement win- dow in a nightcap, blowing kisses into infinity. He left Stella, strug- gled a while to brake his racing thoughts, then blew his tired brains...