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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They entered the great Registan (Market Place) of which Lord Curzon has written: "It was originally and is still, even in its ruins, the noblest public square in the World."† The women, with faces on which an absence of reverence could be descried, stood before the three great mosques facing the Registan, mocking the commands of Mohammed by their shameless presence. Soon the venerable priesthood emerged rampant, the effect of their imprecations being enhanced by the fact that in Samarkand old men dye their beards pink with henna...
...average inventor has a hard life and it is a rare instance for him to reap the rewards of his invention as I have done." So said one Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike...
...competition for the best Freshman Class song that will be open until April 6 has been started and all first year men are eligible to compete. The words are all that is to be written. T. F. Mason '30 will write the music when the winning verses have been picked. This song will be sung at the Jubilee and will appear in the Red Book. All competitors should hand their work into James Roosevelt in George Smith A 31. If any further information is desired see either James Roosevelt or T. F. Mason Gore...
...display also is "Unwin's annual" of 1896, the issue in which "Markheim" first appeared. Seven letters concerning "Markheim", its production, its naming, and its sale, which were written by Stevenson to the publishers, are of especial interest...
...small book in one case was printed on Lloyd Osborne's Toy hand press. Others were written by Stevenson and the wood blocks for the illustrations were carved by him. These are: "The Grover and Pen", with illustrations; "The Surprise", a small newspaper and the only copy known; "The Moral Emblems" with the advertisements for its sale; "Not I, and Other Poems"; "A Martial Elegy or Some Lead Soldiers"; "The Black Canyon"; "The Marguerite, Lawks what a Beautiful Flower"; and "Rob and Ben, or The Pirate and the Apothecary...