Word: sending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book V., Proved Algebraically. Years later, Lewis Carroll was prevailed upon to write...
Professor of sociology, the author recognizes one of America's "problems" in the itinerant Negro "with the don't keer spirit, go day, come day, God send Sunday." But he sees the sociological evil in a setting of romance, and suggests graphically, if a bit lengthily, that his black hero's vaguely discontented lack of ambition is somewhat atoned by the charm of his sudden optimism...
...Democratic Club will send as its delegate, President A. M. Barnhart 1G; while the Liberal Club delegation will be headed by J. K. Fairbank...
...automatic sprinklers throw out water under any pressure of heat, and incidentally send in a fire call. The exact cause could not be ascertained, according to the Chief of the Cambridge Fire Department. Both he and C. R. Apted, superintendent of caretakers, refused to offer any speculations as to the probable cause of the disturbance...
...will think me forward for calling you by your first name," wrote a lady to Andy Cohen, Giant's second baseman, "but ... I understand you are Jewish and single ... if you would care to meet a brunette . . . Anyway drop me a little note and maybe I will send you my . . ." "Yeah, I get hundreds of them," said Second-baseman Cohen...