Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largely to the Old South of pre-Civil War days. The days of great plantations, the old aristocracy with its cult of chivalry and hospitality, the caste system of master and slave, have furnished fascinating and rich material for American authors. Uncle Remus of Joel Chandler Harris and Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe are among the immortal characters inspired by this period. Thomas Dixon, of contemporary fame, has drawn his material from the same source. But the Civil War destroyed the Old South of fable and romance and imposed a new order, both social and economic, upon...
Friday evening in Jordan Hall, a song recital by Tom Williams, baritone. He will sing songs by Buononcini, Chausson, Srauss, Spalding, Griffes, Glazounow, Gretchaninor and Davies...
GOIN' ON FOURTEEN-Irvin S. Cobb- Doran ($2.50). John C. Calhoun Custer had his 13th birthday the day before the first page of this book. He is spiritual brother to "Penrod," to "Huck Finn," to "Tom Bailey," to all the other naughty urchins whose pranks bring reminiscent lumps to shriveled throats. The story-or series of stories-is true to form. There are adventures with dogs and cats, a treasure-hunting expedition, the inevitable circus, a running away from home. There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like...
...streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential to the vital development of nearly every part of the human organism. "Hands and feet are broad, pudgy...
...Tom! Howaryer? Hava good summer? . . . Yeah, had a great trip. . . Two weeks in Paris. Seemed like half the college was there. . . . Say you were in south America. Great! Well, gotta go. 'S good...