Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonders why Dr. Rosenbach did not leave his treasures, including the hair and the strange little box with the mass window in the hands of their original owners. In most of its manifestations, especially where it is a question of chewing gum wrappers and clear capons the mania of collection serves some slight purpose, but when if details an expenditure of over over a million dollars, and results mainly a fascinating juts of corpses, the game seems hardly worth the candle Phere are so many more interesting things that a really clever scender could do with the money...
...oldsters of Manhattan have been sighing. All their old newspaper friends are disappearing. The mania of Frank Munsey for consolidation! Either by buying or selling he disestablished three newspapers, The Globe, The Mail, The Herald, within a twelvemonth. What was Manhattan coming...
Poincaré's character recalls that of Roosevelt. Bristling, energetic, thorough, he has a mania for documentation and official papers, which he reads for diversion. He writes in his own hand from ISO to 200 letters a day. He goes into the French election in the unique position of urging himself on the country as the best Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister of the Interior. His is not a single-track mind, but he is a one-man government...
...redoubtable Pite seemed to possess a mania for shooting whenever he got his hands on the ball and his desire for individual glory hampered his team's progress. The Yale attack improved, however, as the game aged and the excellent play of Suisman and Haas cut down the Crimson lead. Rudofsky countered with two baskets, one after receiving a bullet-like pass from Smith, and Harvard was ahead 15 to 12 at half time...
...Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...