Word: libra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazine was The Golden Book, was published by the Review of Reviews Corporation. An editorial note explained: "The original Libra D'Oro, the Golden Book of Venice, was the official list of the Venetian nobility, who alone could vote or hold office in that remarkable republic of aristocrats." This Golden Book, then, was for a literary aristocracy, "not of birth, but of performance." It was a new monthly anthology of classic fiction, the sort of volume you might make up unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry...