Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Manhattan, the 31st annual Convention of the National Association of Credit Men was honored by an address from Hon. W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture. In an uncautious moment, he waved the manuscript of his speech in the air and made an aside...
...count on them for about three plays a season in which the hale and handsome hero takes to drink and marries the forgiving and handsome heroine just at curtain fall. To help this one out there is volcanic eruption rivaled only by the passionate eruptions of the manuscript. The acting is all right...
...Swedish scientists, Drs. Smierkase and Butterbrod, of the skeleton of a fish large enough to have swallowed Jonah. Toronto papers refused the yarn, for "Smierkase" and "Butterbrod" too transparently mean "soft cheese" and "butter bread." However, at the Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax. Dr. Brown went away from there...
...then, here and there, as Biblical researchers probe into moldy monastery caches or Roman tumuli, they bring to study some off-hand reference to the Man. One student, from some remnants of manuscript, puts His height at 5 ft. 2 in. (TIME...
...Maurice Reygasse, savant and Governor of the Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded extensively...