Word: paperbound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert and Charles Boni, shrewd Manhattan publishers, announced last week the formation of a "Paper Books Club." Object: to sell twelve new paperbound books per annum for $5. Frankly commercial, they will not advertise their offerings as "best" books of each month. They said they would need at least 200,000 subscribers...
This Ibsen girl, as the glum apothecary of Grimstad made her, is a relentless person, chilled of blood, chiseled of expression. She marries George Tesman because, as she reluctantly admits, her day is done. Tesman, an ultimate conception of the paperbound pedagog, is counting upon a professorship to offset Hedda's extravagances, when he learns that Eilert Lovborg, his onetime friend, has renounced debauchery, published a history of civilization, and may be regarded as a competitor for the professorship. Lovborg, however, reassures George that he is satisfied with his moral victory over vicious diversion...