Word: loing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: SILK-Samuel Merwin - Houghton ($2.00). This is the story of the great adventure of Jan Po, "native of P'ing Ling in Shansi, pupil of Ma Chung at Lo Yang, mandarin of the eighth rank with button of worked gold," as told in the journals and letters of the polished Jan himself. He tells of his journey beyond the edge of the world, along the route of the silk; of Ibn Shu Eer Din, Wa Zir of Balkh...
...Lo! some we loved, the loveliest...
...Lo," exclaimed Republicans, "we pay tribute to President Harding by holding our Convention in his native state, which will have no favorite son next year...
...spite of this, the city is filled with a mighty hustle and hurly-burly of reformers, and a general movement of those who might be responsible to get out from under. With the first delicious whisper of sin, there came the sound of drums and whirring grindstones and lo, some seven self-constituted investigating agencies appeared in full panoply of war, headed by that battle-scarred veteran, John R. Sumner, the superintendent of the Society for the Suppression of Vice...
...season, but no revival could be less important than this because no one has ever been enthusiastic about L'Amico Fritz. It is harmlessly sentimental - a country maid throws violets (violet song) and cherries (cherry song) at an Alsatian landowner, and the landowner joins in a final duet: "lo t'amo, t'amo, o dolce mio tesor...