Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking at the story as a unit, I can commend the author for daring to lot description hold his action back for so long at the beginning. All through the book the very graphic word picture of life in the Long Island smart set is drawn with fascinating dexterity and every situation is handled with unusual finesse. Mr. Towne's evident delight in character, delincation and even in ordinary description tend to minimize the importance of the conventional plot--the old eternal triangle, although when he changes his scene of action to France during the war, omitting...
...first vitamin ever to be lassoed and corralled has been isolated by Dr. Walter H. Eddy, Professor of Physiological Chemistry in Teachers' College, Columbia University. The nutrition experts have known a lot about vitamins for years, without being able to touch, taste, see, hear or smell them; some unfeeling sceptics have insinuated that it was all moonshine. But Dr. Eddy showed a group of his colleagues four test tubes containing 70 milligrams of a crystalline substance, Vitamine D, which he prefers to call by the name of "bios" first used by Professor Wildiers, of the University of Louvain, Belgium...
College students--not yet having attained intellectuality--rarely feel, this sympathy; in attempting to develop a closer understanding and cooperation with the working multitudes, the Dartmouth Club performs a vital service. In such a combination the masses gain direction, expression, prestige--while the "intellectual" who casts his lot with them acquires the support, the dignity, the political effectiveness without which his own talents are helpless...
...Theatre the "Topics of 1923" showed a varied assortment of songs, music, costumes, and stage settings, which helped to keep its audience well amused. The far-famed chorus was on hand; wearing costumes which even Mayor Curley could not object to. An orchestra leader named Alfred Goodman did a lot to interpret his own songs to the audience and to the suburban radio fans, and they must have had a gala night of it. Alice Delysia, of stage fame that has long been well established, was the last word in Parisian primal-donnas; while opposite her Nat Nazarro, Jr., showed...
...trunks, guidebooks, tools, cough-drops, coffee grinders, collapsible boats, patent medicines, rubber garments- every conceivable article a gold digger might conceivably require-even one enterprising concern announcing: "Ho for California! Last, not least! Persons going to the gold regions are seriously advised to take, among other necessaries, a good lot of monuments and tombstones. A great saving can be effected by having their inscriptions cut in New York beforehand...