Word: scans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday morning he will arise in his S Street home as usual, put on his cutaway, have breakfast, scan his speech once more. Fidgety, he may peek out the window to see who is coming up the street. Finally, up will drive Senator Moses and Representative Tilson, the Congressional Committee, in a hired car. At 10:30 Mr. Hoover will put on his silk hat and drive off with them down Connecticut Avenue. Thereafter the schedule will be as follows...
...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...
...West re-scan the article and observe that TIME spoke of Secretary of Interior Roy O. West's "past affiliations and investments" when stating the consensus of opinion that "it looked very much as though Secretary West's appointment would not be confirmed." This consensus having been reversed by the Senate (TIME, Jan. 28), congratulations to Secretary West...
Every so often all who seek to peer into the English heart must scan the famed "Agony Column" (Want Ads) of the London Times. Last week in a single issue, on a single page, occurred the following revealing and significant ads, each smacking inimitably of Old England...
...stained bibelot in a sulphurous basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type, to possess a fragment of the 18th century...