Word: meads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Rutherford Mead, 81, famed classicist architect (Boston Public Library), partner of McKim, Mead & White; in Paris; of heart disease...
WELCOME HOME-Alice Duer Miller-Dodd Mead ($2). To compete with the fictional vogue for neuroses, stream-of-thought, documentary realism, Alice Duer Miller has done two novelettes, each with an actual plot: introduction, climax, denouement, elements as gratifying as they are oldfashioned...
Like a white light thrown upon the weaknesses of a democracy is the knowledge that in America a plan for early selectivity would be hooted down with yells varying from "unconstitutional" to "dirty race prejudice." Such accusations, would contain a mead of truth. Any man, it has been said, may in America have an education; not infrequently the statement's scope has been widened to include a university education. Ambitious America thirsts after learning; because that thirst went unrecognized until the teens had stolen upon the box is no reason, in the American tradition, for a refusal to appease...
Prohibition in 1928, as finally provided for in the bill passed last week by the bickering Representatives of the People, will cost about $28,000,000-13 millions for the Prohibition Unit, 15 millions for the U. S. Coast Guard. During the debate, Representative Mead had produced figures snowing that, while spending some 26 millions to make the U. S. dry last year, U. S. citizens spent some 26 millions importing liquor from Canada...
...eminently readable guide book to astrology. Evangeline Adams has also written The Bowl of Heaven, largely autobiographical. Both are published by Dodd, Mead...