Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo and Niagara Falls is the outside of homes. . . . What is the atmosphere of an American home? How do parents and children get on? What attitude has a boy on the fifth floor of an apartment building toward his small sister lying in her crib by the window? How much is the care of these children left to nursemaids...
Simmons Co. (beds) purchased (price unrevealed) the B. F. Huntley Furniture Co. (two factories in Winston-Salem, N. C., lumber factory and mill in South Carolina). Expressing confidence in U. S. prosperity President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons said: ". . . we believe that everybody will have to sleep just as much in 1930 as they...
When the War broke out in 1914 Modigliani coughed too much to be drafted. He stayed all night in the cafes, sketching for drinks, arguing passionately and with great wit. In one of the cafes he met the Polish poet Zborowski who saw that he was dying. Zborowski tried to sell some of Modigliani's canvases. But no one wanted them, so he sold a trunk full of his own clothes and took the painter to Provence for his health. He improved slightly but once back in Paris he drank again, became so undermined that when an unusual cold...
When he comes to the War, surprisingly, the author is much more restrained, more willing to let the facts indict themselves. He gives a plain, horrible account of the existence that unfitted George first for the conversation of his frippery London set and then for life itself. The climax has real inevitability...
Kansas City. BARGAINS IN MAGAZINES, heralded Kansas City Postmaster William E. Morton's persuasive circular, which continued: "The Post Office Department realizing that much desirable reading matter was going to waste which many persons, who perhaps could not afford to subscribe to as many magazines as they would like, will welcome an opportunity to purchase copies of current magazines at a nominal cost. . . . Extreme care has been exercised in selecting or grouping these magazines, and each member of the family will find reading matter that will appeal to his or her taste...