Word: referse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Title: "Tinpan Alley" refers to Woolworth's failure as a song writer (My Little Dixie Pixie"). The title also shows the influence of the Montgolfier brothers, who were making the first balloon ascensions in the same year.
The material of ensuing chapters can be deduced from their titles: "God Help the South," "Dives into Quackery," "The Pedagogy of Sex," "Appendix from Moronia." In all of them, accurate as they may be, important as they may seem, one has the picture of steaming, sweating Author Mencken, his face...
"Galleons Reach" is Tomlinson's first attempt at a novel. Published in England by William Heineman and in the United States by Harpers, it brought him immediate fame. He has been termed the English Conrad, but the metaphore refers more to the nature of the coming of his fame and...
When Mr. Conrad Aiken titles the present tutorial system at Harvard a "fifth wheel" he is not entirely condemning it. He is commenting on the difficulty in cataloguing the value of the system, not emphasizing its demerits. No one realizes better than the tutor, unless it be his tutee, how...
In the last paragraph this story refers to one division of the game called " 'bowling' or 'ten-pins,' played now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts."