Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume which is not merely a sequel but a sequel to the nth power - the 27th item in a series of books that has sold three million copies already - the continuous, timeless story of the adventures of a typically American family, which for sheer length makes James Joyce's Ulysses seem like a preface. We refer, of course, to the latest segment of the Rover saga...
Timber as Well as Souls. Last year the wagons of the Salvation Army collected 55,000 tons of waste paper from the various homes of the nation. This small item, buried in the report of the Social Service Department of the S. A., so inspired Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, that he turned aside from pressing legislative matters to bring the report to the attention of the State Forestry Department, writing an enthusiastic letter to its head, and pointing out that since six tons of paper came from an acre of trees, the Salvation Army had salvaged 9,000 acres...
...newspaper philosophizings to make it stale and unprofitable to dwell upon any subject in which a man mocks at his years and refuses to succumb to them. However, here is an instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini is a man of very uncertain years. Sixty is a usual guess at the figures. Certainly the man is a prodigious veteran. He has been singing year in and year...
When a sharp tongue takes to soft words, good nature prospers. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democratic whip of the Senate, wrote an article which appeared in The New Orleans Item. He referred to Dr. Harding, the President's father (who recently visited a reunion of Confederate veterans) as the " human, bighearted, broadminded father of a distinguished and thoroughly human son." He also dilated upon the warm reception given by the President and Mrs. Harding to 200 Confederate Veterans whom he (Harrison) had taken to call at the White House. His remarks did not go unnoticed. President Harding wrote...
...Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, for the last statistical period of 12 months' commercial flying in the United States there was a total of 130,736 separate flights, covering 2,907,245 miles and carrying 122,512 passengers without a single fatality. This bears out comment in the item above. But to ensure safe flying, good equipment is essential, and aviation circles are bitterly protesting against the policy of the Army Air Service in recently selling surplus, war airplanes by the hundreds. If used by irresponsible aviators in carrying passengers, this equipment, now five or six years old, may seriously...