Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traveling salesmen who swelter in upper berths have often jawed in stuffy washrooms about "these doggone high Pullman rates." In particular they suspected some sort of capitalistic iniquity in the item of a 50% Pullman surcharge accruing to the railroad...
Agronomic item from Club-Fellow (reputation monger of the Town Topics school) : "The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, has his family established for the summer at Southampton,* L. I., the first time he or she have [sic] ever deigned to take on a fashionable resort. We are waiting to see how far his official position gets the Jardines into the social life at Southampton...
...insignificant news despatch from Britain told that his Anglican Grace, the Bishop of London, will disembark on the U. S. heath "within the next few weeks." The Bishop, the item noted, would bring his vestments with him. His equipage will include a wardrobe which would be the envy of a Zulu wife-hunter for brilliance, of an Eskimo seal-hunter for warmth, of a U. S. antique-hunter for traditions. The most venerable are the: Alb, which is a white linen robe, once form-fitting (contracted from the flowing garment of Biblical times in order to give greater facility...
...wish to enter exception to your article, "Adventist" (TIME, July 26, RELIGION). The whole article is couched in language which tends to cast reflection on the denomination rather than to present an item of news which has naturally caused much criticism of the individual; but why asssume that the religion is responsible for the dereliction of one of its adherents? More important yet, why does the editor in the last paragraph imply that it is a foregone conclusion that the "sect" is "fanatical...
...night on Morningside Heights. The Columbia Gymnasium was packed by people who had come not only to hear Professor Walter Henry Hall lead his symphony orchestra through Beethoven's overture to "Egmont" and Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" overture, but likewise to investigate an extraordinary item printed in the pro- gram: Piano concerto in D major Mozart...