Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...myth-conscious? Not by a long shot, not by many generations. But national-myth-lovers feel a lack, wish to hurry a natural process and supply some U. S. legends readymade. Here is Frank Shay's gallant attempt. He has gathered (and perhaps embroidered) yarns about ten mythical U. S. heroes. Says he: "Their achievements are exaggerations. Their sagas are tales of the impossible. They are as American as our national weakness for boasting. They are, after all, ourselves as we might wish to be." Among Shay's figures...
Comparisons between "A Note In Music" and Miss Lehmann's remarkable first novel. "Dusty Answer", are inevitable. The author does not lose ground by the process; the new book is a worthy successor to one that portrayed adolescent womanhood as no other has done in a generation of novelists who take adolescence as their only subject matter. The actual writing in the second novel is done in that delightfully delicate prose that brought so much praise for the first. The chief difference is in the scope of the two themes. "Dusty Answer" is centered about the life of one girl...
This volume will be treasured by all Americans who realize that history is still in the process of being unfolded and that the course of social evolution is not yet complete...
...according to Peggy Joyce, man's clothes help to make the woman. Accepted connoisseur in the modern fine art of collecting husbands, "Miss" Joyce reveals in the Boston Herald that by your tie you shall be classified as Gentleman, Rounder, or Non-entity. Applicants for the process of re-Joycing must remember the sad case of the man who followed her from Paris to the Lido by way of Monte Carlo. As she naively remarks: "Moon-bright Venetian nights nearly made me think I loved him." Then one morning the poor fellow dared to approach her in white socks...
These figures mean that an average of well over one fourth of the House membership in both Lowell and Dunster are using the library every day. As the supply of books is built up and diversified, a process which is going on continuously, more and more men will be able to use the House libraries instead of Widener. By the end of the second or third year of a House's existence it would not be at all surprising to hear that as many as half of the House members were making daily use of the library facilities. These...