Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upspurt lately enjoyed by the railroad industry, some enthusiasts have been led to talk as if, until the past year or so, American railroads were barren investments. A financial scribe compiled, last week, a list of the American roads with long dividend records which throws an interesting light on the subject...
...camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories...
...Beatsly furie", liquor, and Romance, spelled with a capital R, have been as sociated with football in its five hundred years of development. A more imaginative scribe has stated that the Romans played football but to this rumor there appears to be little foundation. The Romans did have a game which they played by standing around in a circle, and throwing four balls around at the same time, but this would appear to be more closely related to juggling than football...
English Critique of Scribe...
...second book, "Eugene Scribe and and the French Theatre," by Neil C Arvin G'17, Professor of French at the University of California, will be released for sale within a very few days. This is the first English critique of a writer who held the lead among French playwrights from 1815 to 1860, during which time over 400 plays issued from his pen. Practically every innovation, every reform, every novelty found in the French drama of the century originated with Scribe. For readers of today, his chief importance lies in the fact he was a social sympton, and that...