Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CONVENTION ! With what complete sway it rules us! How inexorable its mandates I refer to the footnote on p. 20 of TIME, Feb. 22. It, in turn, refers to a man who spends most of his time on his yacht...
...price paid for anything in the porcelain collection. B. N. Needham, Manhattan collector, paid $2,000 for a Chamberlain Worcester dessert service of 45 pieces. Each plate is painted with a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays, and has on its back (in case any inquisitive guest should turn it over) an appropriate quotation from the bard...
...necks in War work. Mr. Fuller, always the inventor, immediately improved some of their processes and output. But he kept his chief attention on cash registers; by the end of the War had created a new type of machine, towards the manufacture of which the Remington Arms Co. might turn their then idling War equipment...
When Charles Lamb invented his category of "books which are not books", it probably did not enter his mind that a peculiar specimen with whole chapters in turn smudged and crisp, would later apply for admission. Very likely, if he could see one of them, he would be at a loss to explain the evident enthusiasm felt for the chapters so devastatingly conned. But to all who frequent Widener these volumes are common place. They are witness to a species of intellectual privation...
Loews Orpheum--"The Black Bird", with Lon Chaney. Owen Moore runs away with this picture and the part of a gentleman crook. Renee Adoree and Lon Chaney turn in their usual competent performances...