Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigorous remarks on Mr. Edsall's excellent simile of the violin and the saw. If you play your violin with a saw, your violin will not be completely spoiled. Its strings may be broken; but they are easily replaced, and your violin may even be improved by the process. But it will never be exactly the same as it was before. EDWARD SCHOUTEN ROBINSON...
...Detroit Free Press, a reputable daily, announced that one Daniel F. Tucker of Yale, Mich., exhibited at a poultry show "a cat having the face of a fox and the bark and habits of a dog." It was said that Mr. Tucker is having pamphlets printed, explaining the breeding process...
When some eminent statistician first compiled the figures which showed that scholastic success was a continuous process from school and college to professional school and life, he thought, perhaps, that he had solved his problem. No longer would it be necessary for anxious parents and eminent educators to exhort the youth of the land to earnest study. The figures were plain to behold. The stern portals of Phi Beta Kappa would surely now be thronged by a host of eager applicants...
...Skinner has turned up in virtually a new type of theatrical entertainment. It is partially spectacle, partially satire, partially a political essay. All of it is seasoned by a liberal supply of slapstick and it adds up to substantial entertainment. The story reveals the Squire of Don Quixote in process of ruling the fanciful city of Barataria. Thus are the satire and the politics neatly wrapped and delivered. The slapstick falls chiefly to the lot of one Robert Rossire, who muffles his true being in the folds and fur of Dapple, Sancho's mule. While Mr. Skinner 'dominated the proceedings...
...himself. Now Lockwood, Greene & Co., famed engineers and specialists in textile mill construction of Boston, have announced that they have been engaged by the Ford Motor Co. to build a large mill in Detroit, and furthermore that "experiments now being conducted point to a highly abbreviated and highly automatic process in the new mill...