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...TIDES-Ada and Julian Street- Doubleday, Page ($2). "Do you," the Authors Street virtually ask their reader, "remember when men, and after a while women, first bestrode huge, high wheels with little saddles on them-'bicycles' they were called-and went 'scorching' along past the phaetons and runabouts and sulkies and dogcarts and victorias to the mingled amusement and admiration of the people who confined their sporting activities to parchesi, crokinole, the schottische and 'Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan...
...Street, who was Ada Hilt of LaPorte, Ind., charming, kind, quick-witted, lately died...
...quite a few towns and cities in the U. S., but I've never yet met anyone-with the exception of members of my own family, who can spell the surname backwards and forwards with the same result." Idlers suggested appropriate names for Mr. Planalp's children: Ada, Bob, Lil, Anna, Hannah, Otto. They could call Mr. Planalp "Pop," one jester added. . . . Manhattanites reflected that Mr. Planalp should some day call on James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco...
Shubert -- "Captain Jinks", with Ada...
...deference to my friend, Ada May, I shall not express my opinion or my views concerning the Charleston...