Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Much as the Manhattan banker, in a famed textile story, entered the textile business. The story tells how a struggling pants-maker, unable to meet a note, asked his banker: "Was you ever in the pants business?" Said Banker, horrified, "Certainly not." Said Pants-maker: "Well...
...nature of the paintings.* Irishmen like Paul Henry see landscapes of mist-laden perfection and paint them so. Irishmen like famed poet-pointer AE (George William Russell) blithely romanticize the already romantic countryside. Patrick Joseph Tuohy's portraits seem both honest and clear, unusual in a day when much portraiture is either smart fawning or sincerity thwarted by theories. Irishmen, in painting as in most of their literature, evoke a racial charm like an opiate which lulls the cry for pro-founder genius...
...Quaker village of West Branch, Iowa, there was once a tow-haired boy who hung around the printing shop of the local Times so much and caused so much devilment, usually by distributing handset type into wrong boxes, that occasionally he had to be ejected-Herbert Clark Hoover. So said A. W. Jackson, 50 years a country newspaper man, retiring last week from the staff of the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser...
...Country, morals, treaties, debts, rents, interest, the laws and customs of centuries, all contracts written or implied, the whole structure - such as it is - of human society. In the end he repudiated himself." To the Allies' shambling policy, or rather lack of policy regarding the Soviet, Churchill attributes much of Russia's tragedy. Timely support of Kolchak, brave but bewildered Czech general, would have given effective substance to the ghost war, "... a war in areas so vast that considerable armies, armies indeed of hundreds of thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated; a war in which there...
...recent formal opening of the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, the use of which has been enjoyed by many students during the current year, brings to the general notice another splendid addition to the facilities of Harvard College. But there still remains much that can be done to increase the opportunities for scientific study. Chief among these would seem to be an extension of the time during which the college laboratories are open to undergraduates. The Widener Library is at the disposal of all members of the University for a much larger part of the day than are the laboratories in spite...