Word: slides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Children invent new ways to slide down the banisters. Grown men invent new ways to play golf. There were the Ardsley, N. Y., fanatics who beat one ball about their course in 24 min., 51 sec. (TIME, Aug. 11). There was Rudolph Supan, of Cleveland, with his eight caddies and spare shoes, who ran between shots and played 257 holes in one day (TIME, July 16, 1923). There was Nicholas Morris of San Antonio, Tex., who teed off by moonlight, played 290 holes to beat Rudolph's record (TIME...
...Democrats, 1 is a Farmer- Laborite. Of the 15 Democrats, only 3 do not come from the South?they are the two Walshes (Montana and Massachusetts), and Senator Adams (Colorado). If the Republicans should carry these three States and Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina?ah, what a land- slide !?they would have a working majority, provided they did not lose any of the seats they now hold...
...piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...
...pessimistic description of the kind of society which produced the War?and judging by the observed results it is difficult to say that the descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when it insists that the book is about money?but more accurately it is about greed?greed for money and for other things as well. Wassermann's world is diseased by greed for sensation, for life...
...comprising the diary of Lieutenant John Barker during the siege of Boston from November 1774 to May 1776, was published. The book is bound in black cloth with scarlet paper sides, illustrated with twelve reproductions from very rare originals in private and semi-public collections, and enclosed in a slide-case. The edition is definitely limited to 500 copies. So great has been the local demand that less than 200 copies are now available...