Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred and fifty books for $16.90. Shakespeare, Dickens, Molière, Byron, Tom Paine, Havelock Ellis?philosophy, history, literature, poetry?How to Live 100 Years, Rhyming Dictionary, Care of the Baby, How to Be an Orator. Step up, gennelmen'n laydeeez 'n take your pick! Any individual book for only fi' cents, a nickel, the twentieth part of a dollar! Ringmaster of and barker for this three-ring circus of literature: Mr. E. Haldeman-Julius of Girard, Kans...
...that the vogue of any of the above-named gentry has entirely gone by. Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll...
Shelby, Mont., is to take its place beside Goldfield, Nev., as the scene of a great conflict. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, has signed articles to fight 15 rounds to decision with Tom Gibbons of St. Paul in Shelby on the afternoon of July 4. Shelby is populated by slightly less than 1,000 persons and is seldom dignified by mention on the map. Montana promotors have guaranteed the champion $300,000, nearly $700 a minute, for his part in the ceremonies. Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts...
Langford is the last bridge between the old school champions and the new. He is a little man. In his time heavyweight champions were not the giant race that rules the ring today. Jim Corbett weighed 184; Bob Fitzsimmons, 172; Tom Sharkey, 180; Peter Maher, 178. Jeffries was the only two hundred pounder among the champions of 30 years ago. Of the present group in prominence among the heavyweights, Dempsey stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd...
...cast of "The First Day" is as follows: Mrs. Mathieson, Miss Lillian Hartigan Aunt Anne, Mrs. E. B. Field Jr. Mary Johnston, Miss Agnes James Miss Mina (Mrs. Norton), Miss Dorothy Kuhns Mr. Morton, Tom Loudon...