Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover (concluding quite a long story): "I wonder whether any fish are left, now that the President has been here...
...TIME, current issue). The scrivener runs riot, tom-tomming all over his paragraph. Let a protest be noted. Peeping TOMS, TOMboys, Blind TOMS, TOM-tits, TOMcats, TOMcods, TOM turkeys, Long TOMS, the TOM of the tom-toms as words, should be axed. Why should a noble name be subject to veiled insult and subtle abuse? Sir, in the game of Gleek the knave of trumps is called TOM! An oyster's liver is sneeringly called a TOMalley! Why not Peter for the Peepers, Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their noses, Bert for the blind...
...President Coolidge made known that he regards with favor the idea of a polyglot conference ("world gathering," "international parley," "pact ceremony," "peace rally") at Paris, before long, to sign the multilateral Kellogg treaty renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
BAMBI-A Life in the Woods-Felix Salten-Simon and Schuster ($2.50). Painful in the extreme are animals that talk. Among long-standing exceptions are Aesop's menagerie with their impressive wit, and Br'er Rabbit with his ingenuity. Boasting no such qualifications, Bambi, straightforward story of animal life, is nevertheless another worthy exception. And though the story will also be read to children, the Book-of-the-Month Club has offered it to its subscribers, adults. For aside from interesting data on wild animals (which, not being the very wild animals of Safari, will...
...pretensions of all these are as dust compared to the potential glory of Jane Carroll. She was born in Louisville, Ky., but she came to Manhattan long ago, to play in the Follies. Therefore she is no foreigner to the metropolis and its denizens would be glad to see, to hear about her family & friends. Her recent success in The Vagabond King, as Huguette, caused several interesting facts about her home life to be publicly known. She is a player of chess; her favorite novel is Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; she is beautiful but apparently intelligent. Jane...