Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when millions of Brazilians were positive that delectable "Miss Brazil" would be crowned "Miss Universe" at Galveston, Tex. He remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio de Manha complacently compared the goodwill voyages of "Miss Brazil" and Herbert Hoover...
Besides adding to the Ellis duties, the merger will almost double American Boy circulation, already well past 300,000. Youth's Companion, started as a Sunday School weekly in 1827, grew slowly, steadily, was bought out by the Atlantic Monthly Press (Little, Brown & Co.) in 1924. Changed to a monthly to celebrate its 100th anniversary two years ago, last year it included some 250,000 U. S. boys on its subscription list...
Such is the latest story of unpredictable Novelist Hughes. None too well told, it seems like a true story he heard somewhere and wrote out to prove the axiom about Truth & Fiction...
...more, as the literary club with its thousands of book-a-month readers who are generally subscribers-by-the-year. Book-of-the-Month Club, which merely selects and sends books at no great reduction, has the largest number of subscribers. Literary Guild, cheaper, selects and sends as well as does its own binding, has second largest subscription list. Others more or less similar, are the following, supplied by the Publishers' Weekly, publishing trade organ: Paper Books, Limited Editions Club of America, Inc.; Poetry Clan; Free Thought Club; Religious Book Club; Catholic Book Club, Inc.; Detective Story Club...
Westerners who claim statistics show them to be better than Easterners in every form of athletic competition rejoiced at Winner Huston's success, claimed it established their superiority in brain as well as brawn. Pious folk, disregarding the regional aspect, rejoiced and quoted statistics to show ministers' children out number all others in Who's Who. Educators searched deeper for significant causes, found: 1) Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston, a cultured gentleman, has been (1917-19) President of the State Board of Education, Wyo., but had grieved when he saw his son spurn the classics for science; 2) an uncle...