Word: mermaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MERMAID AND CENTAUR-Rupert Hughes-Harpers...
...Baker Library of the Business School and recalls the part once played by that institution in the social and commercial life of Boston. The edifice, illustrated above, was built in 1808 for the unprecedented sum of half a million dollars as a sort of merchants' exchange. As the Mermaid Tavern was the meeting place of Shakespeare's circle, and the St. James Coffee House the convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House in the early part of the nineteenth century was a rendezvous of the leaders of maritime Boston. The names over...
Like all telephone exchanges, the local office has had its share of amusing requests for information. Outstanding among those was a request for information about the average weight of an hippopotamus. Another time a young girl called up to know if the University Museum was going to exhibit the mermaid which Boston newspapers had reported found off Swampscott. Among the irritating experiences of the operators are inquiries by persons who call up to learn "if the operator is asleep or not", and the arguments of persons who refuse to believe the operator who tells them the line is busy...
Tambourin--Sarabande--Passepled--Contradanse en Rondeau Sonata, B minor Handel Mr. Barrere and Mr. Whiting Charming Butterfly Campra My Mother Bids me Bind my Hair Haydn Mermaid's Song Haydn Miss Collins Sonata, D minor Scarlatti Sonata, B flat major Scarlatti Siciliana, F major Scarlatti Sonata, F minor Scarlatti Mr. Whiting Dances from "Les Fetes de 1'Hymen" Rameau...
...following apologia is typical alike of the book and the man: "If I have exhibited a questionable dead mermaid in my museum, it should not be overlooked that I have also exhibited much . . . about which there could be no doubt, and I should hope that a little clap-trap occasionally . . . might find an offset in a wilderness of wonderful, instructive, and amusing realities...