Word: sylvan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Emerson's* famed precept about the world's beating a path to the door, however remote, of the best mouse-trap maker, Mr. Sarnoff does not agree. Having seen and exploited many an invention, he says: "While the sylvan mouse-trap maker is waiting for customers and his energetic competitor is out on the main road, a third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio...
Assuredly we here in the Hinterland feel amply compensated for our rustic, pastoral and sylvan solitude by having Roxy's strains of symphony on the dial while, unfolded on an easy porchchair we are viewing the flow of world events so amazingly well presented in dashing chiaroscuro by TIME...
...proper conclusion when she beats a rival in love and .port. The story winds happily about the verandas, hallways, fairways and even the ladies' dressing room in an Elysian country club, encouraged by nymphs of whom none have passed the age of indiscretion, all dancing to Henderson, Brown & de Sylvan melodies...
...surer sign of it than the advent of the spring vacation-now for once the Easter vacation-and the completion of the first batch of April hours. O custom, what crime are committed in thy name! And then yesterday afternoon, as the Vagabond was wandering along the sylvan banks of the limpid, winding Charles-somewhere up near Watertown, just this side of the abattoir-wandering be it said with no ulterior purpose but perhaps with a lurking desire to see a burnished dove and prove the business about the newer iris and all the rest of it, he felt that...
Line (1) "Farmers": showing sylvan motif. "I was an impassioned nutter." said Woolworth, who was also something of a petter...