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...marks - or more than all outstanding marks put together- was seen. The discount rate of the Reichsbank stood at the unparalleled rate of 90%. Individual German States like Dantzig are seeking to establish new currencies of their own, and the Berlin government is frantically at work trying to invent some new gold-convertible currency for the nation...
According to a Patent Office report, women, during the past ten years, have invented 1,400 different "new and useful articles" ranging from a rotary plow share to an eggbeater. Among the articles are included a cow tail holder, a reinforced wooden bowl for beating eggs in and an artificial eyelash. The variety shows that women's activities in America are spreading out and cover every field of occupation and endeavor. "Children, church and kitchen" are no longer what they used to be. Eventually, perhaps, some clever woman will invent a satisfactory substitute for all three...
...edifice of modern civilization, they are responsible for Progress with a capital P, but fame and immortality go to the artists. Because they can paint, write, compose, the artists have been able to project themselves before posterity as the supermen of the race; because they can only build, invent, organize, the business man, the war lord and the scientist must pass into early obscurity. A hundred years from now Stinnes, Basil Zaharoff, James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary will be familiar to antiquarians only, while the fame of Keats and Shelley, Dostoevsky and Goethe will persist...
...Shakspere's plots", he said, "often limp and stagger in a lamentable way. The motives do not always adequately account for the actions of the characters. However, these are of little consequence, for only children read Shakspere for the story, and we cannot expect him to invent his own plot...
These words are not final; with this new freedom at hand everyone has the opportunity to invent better ones for himself. Lewis Carroll's word "chortle" has already fought its way to a place in the dictionary, why not "churkle" or anything else? Instead of "rolling your own", "coin your own". Then, we shall be saved, temporarily at least, from the level of the six hundred word vocabulary of O. Henry's shop-girls, to which at the present rate we are fast descending...