Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, lacking a political topic worth writing about, and having an eye to furthering the U. S. history he is writing,* and knowing that his newspaper (New York Herald Tribune) would be indulgent, and also knowing a quaint topic when he sees one, Mark Sullivan frankly substituted for political trivia a discussion and some queries about a U. S. institution called McGuffey's Readers. Were they still extant? If not, when had they died...
Last week many trivia held their own in the news...
...Trivia are all these; of such trivia was last week's news compiled. But newspaper publishers tremble to think now soon their vaunted circulations would fade away if there were no trivia to intrigue the eyes of gossip-hungry readers. And last week's trivia were the more remarkable in that the sole value lay in echoes. There were echoes of old scandal, old romance, of famed names. Or, perhaps, they were more like bones than echoes, musty bones dug up by the professional gravediggers of the press for the wayfaring reader, who might cry "Alas, poor Yorick...
There will also be first edition of John Gay's "Beggars' Opera," "Polly," and "Trivia," Beckford's "Vathek," a Thackery's "Vanity Fair," with a suppressed plate, Oscar Wilde's first French edition of, Salome with an inscription giving it to Degas, and "Lord Chesterfield's Letters." These are merely a few of the first editions that will be shown...
...wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...