Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Item 1-A whiskey ad in TIME, showing two old gents, one with a nice string of brook trout and his hat neatly adorned with a bunch of bass bugs and bass flies which no self-respecting trout would even flip his tail...
...Item 2-The cover of This Week showing a bird in the middle of presumably a mountain stream, with a fly rod well-bent and reeling in his fish. Ask any fly fisherman if he ever tried to reel in a fish...
...announcement followed the demands of Mexico City prostitutes for better treatment and union recognition. The following item sent over the United Press wires last night is believed to form the basis of the S.L.I.D.'s interest in the situation...
Probably the rarest item in the collection is a rough draft of "Tristram" which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. The poet's writing is so minute that a magnifying glass is necessary to distinguish the individual words. The earlier version has been considerably changed, and many stanzas have been completely deleted. The final draft is on view and hardly a change has been made in this. It would almost appear that Robinson wrote complete verses without alteration. This final draft is dated June 2, 1925, and has been loaned to the Library by Jules LeDoux, his New York...
...start at home with W. C. Fields and his lads and lasses of the showboat in "Mississippi." We may be a bit biassed, but we must consider Bill Fields the most interesting item in any picture which is fortunate enough to be graced by his bulbous-nosed presence. When his main rival for honors is Bing Crosby, there should be little opposition to our prejudice. In "Mississippi" Fields is good--not quite as good as he has been, but still highly amusing. His lines show a little heavy-handed brushing over, but his voice and ingratiating manner are unchanged...