Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dracula. A quarter century ago, a book (Bram Stoker's Dracula) dealt with a gruesome being, dead five centuries, who haunted maidens' boudoirs in the shape of a bat, to drink their blood. So horrible were its beastly visions that many a maid fell helpless with hysterics; mothers banned the book, after reading it secretly themselves, and fainting. This book is now a play, packed grimly with cursing madmen, open graves, the scream of dogs, the shadow of Beath...
...three years has seemed to be only an additional interest and which in its fourth completely redeems itself. The desired "checking up" mentioned by Mr. Aiken is to be discovered at the end of the student's final year; there it lies in wait for him in the shape of examinations calculated to test the worth of the theory itself, the tutee and the capability of his tutor...
...Cross was originally a catcher. Shifted to third, he took his mitt with him. With this hamlike implement he was able to stop so many balls that the rule makers made a rule: "The catcher or the first baseman may wear a glove or mitt of any size, shape or weight. Every other player is restricted to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces and measuring not over 14 inches around the palm." tin the house where President McKinley died was born (20 years earlier) Devereux Milburn...
...hundred and ten text pages, plus some advertisements and a colored cover has just issued from the Doubleday, Page presses in the shape of a magazine called Personality. Three hundred and seventy-seven copies of this sample have been printed and distributed to friends of the publishers...
...Labor party and the National League are, perhaps, in worst shape. It was reported that the Laborites were at their wits' end to obtain enough cash to put up a strong fight, while the Nationalists, under Captain William A. Redmond, have so shocked the liquor interests, their main supporters, by aiding the Republicans and Laborites, in the Dail in the attempt to defeat the Cosgrave Government, that they are all but discredited...