Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blake mounted the leaves of the first edition of the "Night Thoughts" in large sheets of Whatman paper and on the broad margin thus gained he painted a series of imaginative designs. He unhesitatingly rejected the ordinary mode of printing, and evolved a method which, in some of its technical details, was entirely new. It is possible that his first experiments were made...
...confess to a certain prejudice in favor of this issue of the Lampoon due to the fact that careful perusal of its pages has failed to discover any reference to indifferent horsemanship. This violent departure from the iron tradition of American humor speaks volumes for the originality of the paper...
With the disappearance of the moisture so prevalent in Cambridge last Friday, and the gratifying results of medicinal draughts upon the Vagabond's imminent pneumonia--now happily he is out of danger and once more able to set pen to paper--a problem confronts him; or rather be it admitted, a problem did confront him until very recently. In a word he has decided to quit the hallowed shades of Sever, the exalted glories of Emerson--in short the fair, silvan banks of the winding crystal Charles itself--and bask in Bermuda for the rest of this miserable, cold weather...
...valueless paper currency coined by the war chiefs in pay for their troops, is forced upon the local people by each succeeding wave of arrivals. Theft and looting have closed or ruined the stores and business houses. Trade is impossible. The railroads have been declaring dividends only to the militarists; troops have been the chief traffic, while the stock has been abused or ruined...
...Many years ago the boys published the great granddad of The Gadfly." Mr. Keezer fondly recalled. "It was The Anarchist, in much the same class as the Hound and Horn, being a green paper with pictures of President Eliot. Dean Briggs and myself on the front page. The Boston Advertiser had nothing on it. Those pictures went all over the world in fact. The Anarchist and all of them haven't come back yet. It is too bad though. The Hound and Horn can't be compared to a real magazine of the good old days...