Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once a Year," is a book written for one class of people, and one class only for those in whose hearts lives the love of Christmas for its own sake. To those few who do not have this love, to those for whom the lighted shop windows decorated with holly and red ribbon hold no thrill, the pungent odor of the Christmas trees no memories, and the clear, sweet sound of the Christmas carols no dreams, these stories will mean little they will be merely well-written sentimentality...
...Wild Duck. Before Shaw, Ibsen was the mightiest of modern playwrights. He learned about life in an apothecary's shop and looked down at it later with savage Nordic melancholy. In The Wild Duck he wrote about a man who was the enemy of most people because he told the truth, even when truth-telling was tantamount to telling tales. Gregers Werle, the son of a rich Norwegian mine-owner, suspected that his libertine father had disposed of an old mistress by marrying her to Hialmar Ekdal, the son of a man whom the libertine had ruined. Gregers Werle...
...boys buy their own tools, the tuition is the work they do. Cabinets, carved wood, original in conception but steeped in the old Italian spirit are sold to the equal benefit of the shop and the young artisan...
...first newspaper ever printed in this country met the same fate dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...
...after the Hemenway Gymnasium had been built, the Old Gymnasium was fitted out with laboratory equipment of the Engineering School. It has also been used as the Germanic Museum, storehouse, carpentry shop and paint shop. The building is now being used as a shipping depot of the University Press...