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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matthew Barrie, anatomist of sentiment: " 'I have lost the use of my right hand,' I announced, in sending to a charity auction the MS. of my play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. 'At the completion of that play my right hand (probably frightened at the sight of my calligraph) gave out,' said I, 'and I have ever since had to write with my left.' The MS., which fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying...
...amount there would be no excuse for going on. Mr. Markle shook his head. He would give $100,000-not a cent less. He told his own story, how he had been blind for a year in 1908, how Christ and a famous German surgeon had brought back his sight. "I don't want people to think I've got all the money in God's earth," he said. President Fletcher took the donation, with a proviso-$40,000 would go for endowment, $60,000 toward the new dormitory. Another $40,000 for the dormintory would come...
...real actress in Cut Price Glory. Everybody knows what a girl must put up with to succeed in the profession nowadays. These theatrical managers . . . However, Sue does become an actress, at the last minute. Eddie Murphy forsakes the boat bound for Europe, they fade out of sight floating together on Eddie's drum in the middle of the harbor. They easily fade out of memory, too, though they are not hard to look upon while aflash before...
...Observer comes first. The power and habit of seeing in minute detail were upon him from childhood. Once, with a rare beetle in each hand and a third in sight, he transferred one wriggling creature to his teeth, with distressing results. He studied facial expressions of people in trains, of his children from infancy, of dogs, which always took to him. He would painstakingly count tens of thousands of plant seeds under his microscope. He devoted years and two fat tomes to barnacles. An invalid, he had to systematize his work rigorously. He trusted few reports save...
...days of old so often celebrated things were much different at least at Yale. Trembling in his homespuns at the sight of a superior if only in age the poor Freshman was parceled out, body and clothing all to be regulated by a different set of rules. Each move of the first year underlings might involve the breaking of a rule for which fracture or infringement he might be hailed to the bar of upper class justice to be tried converted and sentenced to bed without supper all within five brief minutes...