Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
There are a lot of good courses which are just no good at all for an eccentric vagabond because they themselves are long wanderings through deserts of text. There comes an oasis, though, in every desert, a context in every text, witness Italian 2. Ariosto is about to be encountered by Professor Weston and this morning's lecture in Sever 5 will deal with him as an epic writer and not as an introduction to the Italian language. And besides, Sever 5 is on the first floor...
...have gotten a lot of fun out of the campaign. I filed for Mayor because it seemed to me there was a clear-cut issue between law enforcement and opposition to law enforcement, and I stood for law enforcement...
...modern progress." Dr. Rollo G. Reynolds of Columbia Teachers' College told them that "America is the first country in the world that has dared to educate all of her people. . . . When I went to school I was educated so that I could get a good job and make a lot of money. You young folks today are educated instead to make your contributions to the great experiment of democracy...
...have been higher than $6 a day. I don't care about that. But what I object to, and think I have a right to object to, is to have to sit in a courtroom day after day having my time taken up by idiotic objections from a lot of attorneys on points that don't amount to that! (snapping his fingers...