Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After that he tried to come back, failed, settled down to the life of a gentleman and memories. His gentility has become recognized far and wide, his memories have taken shape in his mind, he has written* a book†. Like John Keats, he was a livery-stable keeper's son. His father intended him for the priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco...
...same shape behind as before...
...construction industry. While no slump is anticipated in any of these directions, at the same time it is not expected by most people that buying from any of these three sources will prove as heavy this year as in 1923 or 1924. The railroads were in sufficiently good physical shape last year to handle record traffic with about 10% surplus capacity unused. Automobile output is not commonly expected to exceed this year the records of the two previous years. Finally, construction also seems to be showing a sagging tendency in volume of output...
Even photographs of ectoplasm, Dr. McDougall questioned. He implied that a close examination would reveal that the substance was actually some organism such as the "lung of some animal, surgical manipulated so as to resemble roughly in shape a human hand...
...Lady by Composer Deems Taylor, scored for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, piano. In the audience, reporting the evening's entertainment for The New York World, sat Critic Deems Taylor, listened while the likeness of his lovely lady took on shape and color in the bodiless air. Wrote he: "As one of Mr. Taylor's warmest admirers, we had looked forward with considerable interest to hearing his new work. . . . We rather liked one or two of his ideas, but his handling of them struck us as rather fumbling and inadequate...