Word: loree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad at the widest point. After binding the edges the toga was complete, was taken to the Accademia Vergiliana, famed Mantuan university. There, later in the week, arrived august professors from every Italian university; also from Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne and many another foreign seat of lore...
...Lampoon, departing from its custom of the last few years, will not issue its April parody of a popular magazine, this year. Instead, the Board will devote its attentions to an issue of poking tun at books and magazines of children's lore...
...typewriter and attempt to transcribe that urge is to essay the impossible. But nearly all residents of the more temperate zones have their dreams and visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire results of a coincidence of man, woman and a bottle...
...least of them is his ability to pick certain youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg, son of a Democratic Congressman from Palestine, Tex., came as a clerk to the Treasury Department seven years ago. He plunged so deeply into tax lore that people began to refer to him as "that Texas tax wizard." When Secretary Mellon needed a wiseman to explain his tax reduction plan to Congressional committees in 1924, he called for Mr. Gregg and said in effect: "Go, young man, to the Capitol and enlighten those grey-heads for me." After...
This for one trail. If one associates himself with a trail system of any size, he will find so many problems and matters of interest that they will exclude every other activity if given rein. The lore and the lure of the trail are equally endless. The write can testify that one may spend years on the matter of trail signs, always finding it interesting and always learning something new. For no one yet knows the best type of sign for trails...