Dickens Life of Our Lord review tone Eastertide
The column evaluates Dickens Life of Our Lord, noting its publication after long custody in the British Museum and its controversial rights sale. It praises the narrative charm while criticizing several historical inaccuracies and mentions the first edition price of $1.75.
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Herod
John the Baptist
Bethany
St Mathew
England
Ripe Olive Cheese and Tomato Toast and Parsley Croutons
The article promotes tomatoes as versatile healthful ingredients and offers two tested recipes. One combines tomatoes with butter cheese olives on crostini baked golden to serve eight. The second creates Peanut and Tomato Bouillon with Parsley Croutons, a hot, savory soup-style dish serving eight.
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Lfe Insurance
Town Eyes State Board Oversight On Major Projects
Town officials discuss aligning construction work with State Board engineers for estimates surveys and specifications. They propose letting major projects by bid and require engineer approval of specifications and final results, with a local supervisor in charge.
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State Board
Easter Come Gentle Lord by Violet Alleyn Storey
Poem invites a gracious return by Christ during the Easter season. Imagery blends Bethlehem stars with spring growth and April rains. The speaker asks the Lord to bring healing to yearning hearts, noting His wounded hands and a world awaiting solace.
Critics Debunk Free Verse List as Season's Best Plays
A magazine April issue presents a titled list of notable works including Ah Wilderness Days Without End Men in White The Green Bay Tree and more. The piece reveals the list is a critic's compilation of the season's best plays rather than a modern poem.
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Lake
Mary of Scotland
School For Husbands
The Perfect Girl from the Bureau of Standards
The United States government through the Bureau of Standards released a list labeled perfect girl. It includes height five feet six inches weight one hundred twenty one pounds bust three point eight inches waist twenty six point three inches hips forty four inches and other measurements.
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United States
Bureau of Standards
Almangyne
Epistolary Vanities From a Purple-Eyed Salome
A playful list of imagined letters to public figures and celebrities from 20th century media culture. The piece lampoons social reach and gossip, naming Hughes Johnson Winchell Bern ie Ohar a Nelson and others. It ends with a caveat about libel law and an injured silence note.
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Johnson
Williams
West Point
Neal O'Hara
Pathfinder
Nila Cram Cook
NERTZ
Walter Winchell
Fall River
Ben Bernie
Ozzie Nelson
Rutgers Jazz Bandits
Mr. Ouster
America
Harold Grey
Warbucks
Ripley
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George Mackinnon
The
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Mayor Mansfield
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LaGuardia
Jessie Rfc Jones
Andy Mellon
Gas & Electric
Capitol City
The Bassoon in Orchestral Use Explained
The bassoon is a double reed instrument used mainly by symphony orchestras and pursued by few as a career. Its deep muffled tone supports effects like the drunken Cos sack return in Tchaikowsky’s Fifty Symphony, though its use outside symphony work remains rare.
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Tchaikowsky
William Gilbert and the birth of electricity
William Gilbert, royal physician to Queen Elizabeth I, coined electricity and built the first electroscope, distinguishing electricity from magnetism. He died in 1603. The first electrotherapy handbook appeared in Paris in 1749.
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Gilbert
Paris
Bristol Post Office Dispatch Times and Nudism Note
The Bristol post office schedules dispatches with varying times including 9 45 A M and 7 15 P M on weekdays and holidays, with mail received at several morning and evening slots. A separate paragraph discusses nudism, noting it as widely practiced with examples in Moscow and France where semi nude groups call themselves tourists.
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Moshana
France
Early Flying Plans Among Medieval Philosophers and Artists
Favorite projects aimed to train children from infancy in aerial navigation using artificial wings.
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