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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncommon thing for a knocked-down deer to do. A bullet clipping a deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...
WITH the overshoe era upon us and snow upon the overshoe era, fires crackle in grates all too cognizant of Dickensian tradition in their inconstancy of warmth and books often encumber the knees of gentle souls who prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens. No better book for such a purpose, no more delightful, distinguished, and never dull--to be precise, let's suggest that David McCord is an excellent essayist in the Hazlitt manner with a touch of Benchley at his best...
...other day, speaking of his play, an actor in the "Butter and Egg Man" repeated that often told truth: the best humor is that which can incite two to laughter and one to tears. Mr. McCord has discovered the art of humor. This character of his who spends "Half Hours at Sea." who knows a "Philosophy of Ceilings." is humorous in his revlation of pathos. Life to him is no grand grasp of the mighty but a daily contact with the desperately stupid rhythm of life as it is. And the order of his day is the discovery...
...national institution in the broadest sense of the term when President Lowell took office he found a surprisingly small percentage of undergraduates coming from homes outside of New England. The chief reason for this condition was that schools in the South, the Middle West and the Far West often did not prepare directly for the old plan examination. He therefore instituted the new plan admission rules whereby a candidate might take four general examinations in the broad fields covered by every first class school. The success of this innovation is illustrated by the following figures. In the year before...
...Warner made his expedition into Western China and Turkestan in search of art objects from the early centuries of Buddhist Chinese civilization. But it is as a story of adventure that the book makes its greatest appeal. The narrative romps and blusters with Mr. Warner over the long and often perilous road. Mohammedan bandits, Chinese hospitality of the old school, fiery interviews with stubborn officials, forty-course dinners, thieving innkeepers, Russian refugees, seas of mud and acres of dust traversed by caravans of jolting carts and finally by camels into the great northern desert compose the panorama, which finally reaches...