Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still incompletely under stood civilizations, Princess Bibesco feels that Egypt's statues know more than they will tell." Egypt is not of interest except to a few devoted amateurs. Her thoughts have remained inaccessible, incommunicable to the herd (as are our own). . . . He who has never pursued the key to the secret of life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have left Egypt, I keep rubbing my eyes and wonder why I see badly...
...Plummers Corner, suburb of Auburn. Me., Mrs. Carleton Proctor thought the abandoned Little Methodist Church should be used. She got the key, threw out the church supper dishes, scrubbed the floors, filled the lamps, tidied all things. Then she invited neighbors to hear her preach. During a long sermon she announced: "This is God speaking. He is going to have a clean house here. There are never going to be any more church suppers." The congregation walked...
Author Parker is more entertaining when she is funny, but more herself in graver or more spiteful key. Mr. Durant is the story of a man who got into trouble with his stenographer, out of it with the help of what he doubtless imagines is providence. Little Curtis is a small, indeterminate but pathetic boy who has had the misfortune to be adopted by the very respectable first lady of a very small town. Best story: Big Blonde, which won first prize in the O. Henry Memorial award (1929). It is the story of a good-natured woman who takes...
Freshman tennis--minor sport numerals to: W. E. Aresnberg, J. M. Barnaby, Henry Greenberg, Richard Inglis, Capt., G. D. Key, M. McMichael, C. B. Sykes, G. P. Webber, H. R. Woodard, and G. B. Walker, Manager...
...said State of Texas." So immense is Texas (265,896 sq. mi.) that few persons can conceive of its size. It takes as long by train to travel from the Panhandle on the north to Brownsville on the south as it does to go from New York to Key West. Leader Garner gave his own figures: "Texas would make 220 States the size of Rhode Island, 54 the size of Connecticut, six the size of New York. Texas is four times bigger than the combined New England States. . . . With an estimated population of 5,600,000 Texas ranks fifth among...