Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: The quality of "modesty" in your correspondent Alphonse J. Miller who is shocked at the beautiful figure of a "Zig" comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part...
...interesting question in mass-psychology as to why, in the face of these records, the constant criticism of the work of the "Y" persists. I suggest to Mr. Scott that he read the editorial note written by Frederick Palmer in the American Legion Monthly for September 1928, under the title "Were We Fair...
...honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his work in education was recently held at the home of C. S. Thomas in Newton. Twenty-three members of the staff of the Graduate School of Education attended. The dinner was followed by a social hour in which Dean Holmes read a paper on the School of Education after which he was presented an engraved watch by members of the staff...
...offering of 50,000 shares of A. G. Spalding & Bros., the issue being no-par common at $65. Directors approved a five-to-one stock split-up, increasing common from 60,000 shares, $100 par to 500,000 shares, no-par. Among backers of the new issue was Dillon, Read...
...this point it occurs to me that I have named forty authors and I have but scratched the surface. It is good, I think, to scan this panorama occasionally. It is a tolerably good answer to those who wail about modern literature (and who don't read it). Most of these authors should be collected in their original bindings and the lady will, of course, have to do over her library. There will be many cloth books in bright colors and paper labels and the decorator will have to use uncommon skill. Somehow I cannot see Barbellion in calf...