Word: tobacconist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons, leaving a total of 29,704 compared to 28,805 in the 15th edition. Notable are inclusions and exclusions of the 16th edition. Included, for example, are Jackie Coogan, Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., many a newly famed industrialist. Not included are Greta Garbo, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, Tobacconist George Washington Hill. The preface explains that in 1900 Who's Who listed one in about 8,000 of the general populace. Now it lists one in about 4,000. Statistics would therefore argue that some day (specifically, in the year 2290) the Personages of the U. S. will overtake...
...these youths laconically pointed out last night. "Harvard men don't cut up much. We've got a bigger market in less educated educational centers". At any rate, Arthurs, Inc., have taken up the Harvard monopoly on the cards, which are now on sale in the tobacconist's shop in the Lampoon Building, a dime apiece, three for a quarter...
...first character in the book is Bolt, a loud dockyard foreman, a Kiplingesque sort of character, a type of England in her glory. At the end he is a doubtful, silent, bedridden old man. After the launching of the cruiser, the story shifts to the shop of philosophical Tobacconist Jones. In Jones's shop gathers a mixed crowd of intellects: Langham, the brilliant Radical politician, pro-Boer now, anti-German later; Talbot the East End vicar, gently skeptical of the ways of men, passionately curious about the ways of fungi; young Bolt, the old shipwright's son, who wants...