Word: notebooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...again, but when I come upon such a magnificent thing as I just have, I must inform you. The following is copied from an In Memoriam in the Detroit Free Press of March 15, 1928. I cannot send you the actual notice for it is securely pasted in my notebook; but I will swear for its authenticity...
...ever heard "the other version of that last one he sang," or tell him he should go down to the end of the town and "hear the old nigger lady who moans 'em by the hour." Mr. Sandburg has always gone, always listened. He has kept a notebook, jotted down the words and the tunes in strange hieroglyphics comprehensible only to himself. Now he presents them as The American Songbag.* There are some 280, and, like the family piecebag, they are of all colors and patterns. There are songs of sailors, of miners, of lumberjacks, of loggers, of hobos...
...tell neatly the story of a man who loved numerous women; married two of them; survived to see them decide to live with him en trois. At the end they had retreated to other, less complicated amorous arrangements, and he was looking up telephone numbers in the faithful old notebook which had been waiting quietly the entangled while. All this is clumsy; seldom witty; always eminently well played by Lynne Overman...
...Tolstoi, philosopher, sculptor, playwright, political scientist, third son and namesake of the late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...
People who had found that they could not go to sleep without reading some new adventure of Mr. Holmes will welcome the news that Author Sir Arthur has made the "discovery of another forgotten notebook of Holmes in a strong box that had been hidden away for years." The twelve stories in The Case Book are conclusive evidence that, despite his dubious doctrines on spiritualism, Sir Arthur has lost none of his persuasiveness in inductive yarn-spining...