Word: th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely possible for this reviewer to revive for the n'th time an appreciative artifical sentimentality or a chortling complacency, he must grant the editors of "The American Procession" due credit for skillful application of the diluted stimulus. The photographs, arranged in rough chronological order, are so selected as to probe the most various corners of subconscious memory. There is a full length profile of John L. Sullivan, arms limply extended, legs swathed in knee-buttoned tights, mustachios waxed and contemptuous, stomach distended,--for such was the masculine style. There is the "tennis girl of the eighties", racquet posed delicately...
Next to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the "Little Flower" of the Infant Jesus who died in young, frail sanctity in 1897, no woman of modern times is more famed among Roman Catholics than another frail young Frenchwoman who died in 1879. All the vast majesty of St. Peter's at Rome was needed for the ceremonies which will make a saint of Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes this week...
...Graf Zeppelin cast off from her Friedrichshafen mast for the 347th time, headed over the ocean for the 50th time, carrying her 8,697-th passenger and 100 white mice to Brazil, thence to Chicago...
Chiefly laboratory work, Tu., Th., and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Sat., at 1. Professor A. L. Endicott, assisted by Dr. Westcott...
...evenings during the summer when they are playing it rains, but the stage equipment is arranged so that it can be separated from the truck and set up in a hall. At one point on their journey the State Police nearly sentenced them to a month n jail, mistaking th truck and its variegated baggage for gypsy bootleggers...