Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceivable to his infuriated imagination. It showed a crazily proportioned South Sea Island female, mouth crammed to oozing with banana, holding aloft a half-devoured piece of the fruit. In the background gaped a skull. Having splotched every color on the palette over his flamboyant picture, he entitled it, "Yes We Have No Bananas," stuck it in front of his fireplace. "That," said Novelist Smith, with an air of a man who has just done a good lynching, "is thoroughly modern...
...incident inspired Mr. Smith to further devilry. Affixing the signature, Pavel Jerdanowitsch, to the canvas, he changed the title from "Yes We Have No Bananas" to "Exaltation," sent the thing to the Exhibition of Independents at the Waldorf Astoria, Manhattan...
...Arthur was more specific. And he ended by asking: "Was Darwin right when he said that man under the action of biological forces which can be observed and measured, has been raised from a place among the anthropoid apes to that which he now occupies ? The answer is Yes! and in returning this verdict I speak but as foreman of the jury, a jury which has been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before you the evidence on which our verdict was found...
...traveler. He should be enormously courageous, enormously patriotic; should have passed through incredible (almost) adventures and come out enormously modest?and of course unmarried. Let's see? the times are getting so Elizabethan?perhaps he ought to be so thoroughly a man of action that he swears occasionally and, yes, has had to know women, very wicked ones, in the course of his thrilling duty. His name could be Dessiter ? Colonel Dessiter. It might be a good plan to conceal his first name till the very...
...Story. Edith Brown, lost in a fog, sits down on Colonel Dessiter's steps. He, about to die, asks her in. Is she by chance a typist? Thank goodness! Will she please take down this story, great danger though it will place her in? Yes, yes, Miss Brown fears nothing in life. For the next three hours she lives in a hair-raising world of super-romantic adventure. Colonel Dessiter has possession of the worldwide schemes of the Communists including the Chinese situation, India, Europe, the U. S.?everywhere. Now Miss Brown has possession of them too and since...