Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books on exhibition are nearly all from the library of Philip Hofer '21, of New York. These are supplemented by a dozen Sacre Rappresentazioni, printed in Florence, which belong to the Harvard College Library, and a few books from the Print Collection of the Fogg Museum. On the wall above the cases containing the books, cuts taken from books have been hung. Books and single cuts together give a very comprehensive idea of book-illustration in the sixteenth century...
...many ingenious publicity stunts and devices for influencing public opinion which were brought to the notice of the committee. Several months ago, a professor at Columbia University declared that all persons who whistled with their lips were morons. This was merely an ingenious method of getting his name in print before publishing one of his books. The manufacturer of a patent reducing medicine hired 40 New York chorus girls and, after dividing the city into zones, sent them on a circuit to all the drug-stores, where they bought tooth-paste, aspirin, etc., and finally asked for the reducing product...
...could lend money to its members (in groups of five) on assets which before were ineligible for rediscount. Now it could substitute U. S. securities for gold and commercial paper as coverage for its currency. With the gold thus released, it could withstand foreign raids on the dollar or print more paper money...
...over Russia, militant spirits ran high. Theatres and opera houses were packed with Red soldiers and Red commanders ("officers" have been abolished) who entered free, loudly cheered by passersby. But the great day was not a holiday for Soviet civilians?Josef Stalin saw to that, and Soviet newsorgans dared print nothing stronger than the Dictator's slogan: "We do not want a single inch of foreign soil but we will not give up a single inch...
...that surrounds his brother. The fact that Lionel's nose is too blunt for any critic to have described him as "an elegant paper cutter moving through the drama" may somewhat account for this. He is neither a dope-fiend nor a drunkard; he seldom abuses critics in print and he made his stage debut at 15. Like his brother, he later tried to be a painter. Then he took to the piano and became a competent composer. He sips three malted milks a day, drives a Ford roadster, and merely says "My God!" when irritated. Two years...