Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight before -full 20 hours in advance. When flesh and blood can stand no longer, the queue folk rent camp stools from hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said...
...extra illustrated edition of Johnson's "Life of Pope", contains many letters, documents; and portraits of Pope and his contemporaries; a volume containing 18 letters written by Pope to William Fortescue, between 1730 and 1739; the first edition of the four parts of "The Essay on Man," the first edition of "The Rape of the Lock", and "The Dunciad...
...scholarship will be assigned by competition, the most determining factors being a man's college record and the quality of an essay, the subject of which must be presented to the committee by April 1 with a birth certificate, and a complete statement of the schools attended by the applicant; also a detalied statement of the work which the applicant proposes to do in Italy...
Student authors in the University will have an opportunity to compete for cash prizes amounting to $750, as the result of an announcement by the Lawyers Club of the University of Michigan of a prize essay contest for the best manuscripts on the subject, "American Institutions." The essays may be historical, sociological, legal, or otherwise. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate the study of American institutions and to familiarize Americans with them by essays having literary as well as historical merit. This is the initial year of the contest and it will continue as an annual affair until...
...subject that can be treated in literary form is eligible but the essay is not to exceed 2,500 words. The first prize consists of $35 whereas the second...