Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TRESPASSER?Gloria Swanson's best performance, though the story is not much...
...dared say that lordly persons were above them? There was Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales of the great plains and the pioneer West...
Righteousness, peculiarly Nordic chastity, and much bloodletting characterized the dime novels. At their worst they exhibited a style grandiose, bizarre, ornate; at their best they were active with verbs aplenty. They gave Russian and European pre-War children the idea that the U. S. was a land whose dust was completely bitten by redskins. At Manhattan book-auctions certain dime novels now bring between...
...walking sticks, coffee strainers and teething rings fell upon the Currier & Ives prints. They began to boost their value as records of an artless age, some even insisting upon their intrinsic value as works of art. Prices mounted until now a "good" Currier & Ives print is worth about as much as a Chevrolet and rare ones can be sold to lift mortgages from old farmhouses...
Passenger. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's wife's aunt, Mrs. Hoffman, 70, once declared that she would never ride in an ocean steamer, much less an airplane. Col. Roosevelt is now Governor of Porto Rico. Last week aged Mrs. Hoffman flew to San Juan from Miami to spend the fashionable Antillean season...