Word: scampered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Mr. Powys nor his "Fables" are for the poor mortal who likes a good story, but who can not abide "literature." Like a medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...
While flyers scamper here and there, their wives wait, think, sometimes speak their minds. The New York World last week published some interesting views. Excerpts...
When Mexican revolutionists, pursued, scamper across Mexico's northern border they land in Texas. But southbound fugitives emerge in Guatemala, which has a small outlet on the Atlantic, a large coastal line on the Pacific, and a stretch of mountainous country in between. South of Guatemala lies Salvador, which is a comparatively narrow strip of country along the Pacific, big Honduras shutting it off on the Caribbean side. In eastern Guatemala the principal product is bananas. In western Guatemala and throughout Salvador the principal product is coffee. A large percentage of the population of both Guatemala and Salvador...
...cities have their claim agents and ambulance chasers. New York has most. After an accident they scamper to the injured person's door, clamoring to save or earn a few dollars. Their practice is against public welfare. Bar associations, medical associations, the courts, good citizens everywhere have denounced both chasers and agents?futilely...
Drug manufacturers no longer work under cover, turn now to the A. M. A. council for endorsement of new medicines, reported Dr. Olin West (Chicago), secretary of the association. They have been frightened out of extravagant claims; the number of fraudulent devices is decreasing. Some unscrupulous cosmeticians still scamper naughtily on the sidelines, putting poisons into paints and powders, putting false statements into advertising. For these legislation is sought...