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Word: paged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crow, Yale '26: "I don't think a page is enough to list all that's the matter with Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Expound Varied Theories in Diagnosis of Harvard Ailments--Many Blame Rum, Red Tape | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

THERE was a day when the out-and-out "thriller" novel was a legitimate form of writing, when the author thought he had done his duty fully and well if his reader, upon turning the last grisly page, leapt into bed and pulled the blankets up around his ears, to quiver and quake the rest of the night. "Dracula" and "She" belonged to that school and fulfilled its requirements patly. Probably the fact of our early attachment to those volumes accounts for our disappointment in Mr. Cline's latest novel. "The Dark Chamber...

Author: By J.e. BARNETT ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Holingshead volumes, of which there are two in the cases, are dated 1571 and 1577. They are filled with quaint woodcuts depicting chiefly battle seenes in which the earliest cannon figure. Printed in old English black letter, they are replete with marginal sub-titles, and bear on the title-page a solicitous "God save the Queene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Exhibit This Week Contains First Editions of Four Old Authors--Copy of Chapman's Homer on Display | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

Died. Merceline Orbes, famed clown; in Manhattan; a suicide (see page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...through the corridors of a big mansion. In Hessian boots and quest of youth, he ventures over the blood-and-thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant with romantic excitement no less hard than did less hardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quest of Youth | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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