Word: cod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astounding how much the term "benefit concert" will do towards keeping away an audience from even really cod artists presenting an intelligent program. It is hard to understand how there should have been such a meagre audience at the concert of Albert Spalding and Edith Mason in behalf of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund last evening Symphony Hall...
DOCTOR NYE-Joseph C. Lincoln -Appleton ($2.00). When Doctor Nye came back to North Ostable his return and the reasons for it offered a perennial bonne bouche for all the gossips of Cape Cod, Why, the man had embezzled a church fund and gone to jail for it (and it was lucky his poor wife had died just before he was found out). How Doctor Nye rehabilitated himself against heavy odds-how he protected two young star-crossed lovers in spite of their warring families-how he finally established his innocence even in the eyes of his pompous brother...
...home of the bean and the cod...
...present paved streets in Tokyo are as rare as pearls in Cape Cod oysters. Sidewalks are non-existent outside of a small business district. The street car system is antiquated, and there is no sanitary sewage system. In rainy weather the mud in the streets is so deep that people are obliged to go about their business in rubber boots...
...When you return here, I am apt to think that you will find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's Inn to pick up scarce books. Buy cod books, and read them; the best bocks are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads; for they may profit by the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not always of learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but few they shall...