Word: thornton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction...
...Thornton, N. H., Farmer James Cummings was fattening 4,000 turkeys. All were swept away. At Waterbury Vt., 28 died. At Bemis, Vt., seven houses were piled in one heap of wreckage...
Travis B. Smythe, 26, Thornton, Tex., oil refinery chemist, found the fumes of boiling benzine "rather pleasant," not realizing that they were attacking his spleen, causing him pernicious anemia, and hemorrhages of his mucous membranes. Blood has been oozing from his mouth, nostrils, intestines, bladder; and his organs for manufacturing new, replacement red blood cells have not been functioning properly. In Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Tex., last week he borrowed blood for the 42nd time in six months. With three arm veins already destroyed by repeated blood transfusions and realizing his futility, he said: "I'd be a quitter...
...nature of true nonsense verse. Lewis Carroll's technique, and informs us triumphantly of the awful libel that the author of "Alice" may have been the inventor of cross-word puzzles. His comments and foot-notes sound as if they had been written for a volume of Thornton Burgess' "Mother West Wind Stories"; among them he convinced one reader that, talk as he may about the technique of Lewis Carroll's nonsense, Mr. Reed never yet say the joke in it all and has somewhat strained his eyes trying to look...
...Arnold, Dana Converse Backus, Thomas Senior Berry, Gordon Marsh Benedict, Melvin Irving Bernstein, Dwight Wesley Chapman, Jr., David Luther Dickson, Warren Fosket Fair, Stanley Turner Frame, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Allan Holske, John Denisor: Houghton, Judah Isaacs, Lester Snow King, Glenn Allen Millikan, Charles Platt Jr. John Robert Richardson, Robert Thornton Smith, Abraham Harold Swirske, Henry Franklin Williams and Charles Edward Wyzanski...