Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Stimson did not say "outrage" but he set to work afresh on the whole Barlow case, with the hope of closing it out and forever eradicating a small patch of international prickly heat. The Post Office Department last week made sounds like a 3? postage stamp. From Capitol Hill, echo answered: "Pooh-pooh...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked how he wrote "Up to Now," his serial auto-biography currently appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. Answered he: "I dictated it. . . . I'll tell you the secret of concentration. Just get in the front seat of a car. Light a good cigar and ride along looking at your feet. It's a great way to write articles...
...Berlin, Heidelberg or Güttingen, were as interested as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia's president, in a report which he issued last week in behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (of which he is also president). It was a report comparing pre-War and post-War enrollments in the German colleges. It could be tabulated as follows...
...worst more artificial than sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if the reader can read vicariously, Chéri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...
Also in Minneapolis was held the first National Philatelic Exposition. Here were gathered, in long rows of glinting glass cases, $1,000,000 worth of stamps owned by 100 collectors. To signalize the event a model post office was erected where visitors could mail commemorative letters home by sticking on a lowly, uncan-celed, U. S. carmine 2¢ stamp, the latest issue of which celebrates the golden jubilee of electric light and Thomas Alva Edison...