Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of water-colors by Professor Arthur Pope, which is on view at Doll and Richard, 71 Newbury Street, Boston, is, however, no ordinary exhibition. Perhaps the first thing that strikes one on seeing it, is the blazingly daring use of brilliant color, that varies from the brightest crimson in the "Mountain Ash in the Great Gulf," to the cool greens and lavenders of some of the other pictures...
...variety and freshness in execution which cannot fail to please any vagabond who is wise enough to take the trip into Boston to see the pictures before March 8. Such a one will come away a wiser man, for he will know that there is such a thing as an interesting exhibition of water colors...
...often that a good deed is remembered two hundred years afterward. Those men who have formed a society of bibliophiles under the name of the John Barnard Associates have done an excellent and very fitting thing; for it was the Reverend Mr. Barnard, who, in the middle of the last century, replaced the old library which had been lost by fire with a new one of his own. The colleges in those days was not the prosperous organization it is now, and such a gift meant as much then as would the gift of a new library today, should Widener...
...occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which to him to approach the unknowable paradise. His answer was short and unhesitating. "I should have liked sometime to have given that bolt its last turn...
...particular proposal is a modest one but it will serve very well as an entering wedge into the citadel of precedent and inertia. As the Lantern says, "If the legislature does create a state board of entrance this session it will be showing the way to other states. The thing is bound to come and it is only a question of which state will be the first...