Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point President Hoover, reading from manuscript, inadvertently skipped part of his text. The omission: "In the meantime it is essential that a large part of the enforcement activities be transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice...
...world-speech. George Washington, "best business man of his day," was its occasional theme. Its substantive text was U. S. foreign relations. In them President Coolidge found much satisfaction. President Washington, he imagined, would also have been well pleased. Said President Coolidge...
...Significance. Chesterton's pencil sketches add immeasurably to the fun? "Lady Caroline Balcomb plumbing the Depths of European Affairs" through a lorgnette; "Richard Mallard expressing his incapacity for surprise." The text is a sparkling satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot?international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...
...knowledge of the objects of opinion. What he thinks he knows about his college is too often only a series of impressions and images which have become grouped about certain aspects of college life. The word "football" brings to mind one set of images; the sight of a text book or the tolling of the chapel bell, another. As a general rule, the pictures made in his head do not correspond in more than the slightest degree to reality...
...great a range of subjects as illustrations for the Bible to dancing figures by Toulouse-Lautrec. Among them are woodcut book-illustrations, numbering more than 500. In many cases the whole page of the book is preserved, showing the cut in its setting on the page of text, an aid to the student of early printing. Included are examples from the chief centers of book-illustration in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; many were colored by hand in imitation of miniatures in manuscripts for which printed books were cheaper substitutes...