Word: loreli
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marshy lake and near to a sleepy town. The farm has an aristocratic history, the lake an island bearing an abandoned hermitage and consequent legends, the town a legion of characters in whose existence English custom could well speak and from whose mouths her lesser and provincial lore could proceed in a more complete and interesting manner. The setting and the material must have opened to Mr. Reid many opportunities for elaboration and diversification of his tale. He evidently lacked either the requisite desire, daring, or technique...
...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...