Luncheon Notes from the Writers' Club in California
The weekly event at OLLYWOOD, CALIF features corned beef and cabbage amid chatter about plagiarism charges. Guests include Daingerfield, William A. Brady, and a gallery of theater legends while new members join and a New Deal third birthday is joked about.
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Ollywood
Calif
Writers’ Club, Inc
Red Inc
Pacific Slope
Daingerfield
William A.brady
California
Be-lasco
Tom Wise
Frank Bacon
Holbrook Blinn
Dave Warfield
McGoofey’s First Reader and Eclectic Primer
A humorous item from WNU Service lampoons early 20th century life with sketches of Owen the motor cycle cop and assorted absurdities. It features odds and ends about arresting irresponsible drivers and quirky proverbs, ending with a string of playful, nonsensical lines.
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Owen
Psalms of Life and the Story of Alfie Moral
A blend of verses urging musical study and self discipline with a tale of Alfie a tall physically impressive youth who seeks attention. He fails at acting but finds his niche as a drum major in a brass band. The piece closes with the moral the bigger they are the harder they fall.
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Alfie
Missouri
Literary test on author and poem attribution
Questions list various lines and attributions asking to identify proper authors for poems and works. The items mix authors like Kipling Longfellow Hemans and labels, with incorrect or partial citations and unclear capitalization.
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Bermudas
Geline
Mandalay
East Lynn
Fritz-Greene Halleck
Thomas Macaulay
Rory O’more
Althea
America
Horatius
Psalm of
Life
Sidney Lanier
Henry W. Longfellow
Rudyard Kipling
Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn
Sir Oliver Lodge
Robert Her Fick
F. P. Adams
Thomas Hardy
Henry W
John Boyle O’reilly
Auld Lang Longfellow
Theresa Helburn
Casey
The
Kubal Khan
Marco Bozzaris
Casabianca
Oliver Herford
Felecia Dorothea Hemans
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Edgar A. Guest
Jerome Kern
John Kendrick Bangs
Correct Grammar For Common Phrases
The proper forms are It is a matter between you and me and I never heard of it before. It is raining heavily uses it is, not it are. The eggs are cooked. Please pass the sausages. The outlook for a bull market is very good. The prospect for any big rise in securities is bad.
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George Washington
Buckingham Palace
Maine
Tibet
Eli Culbertson
Sidney Lenz
The Marriage Problem by The Harbor author
The Marriage Problem surveys relationships with sharp wit and concise storytelling. The Harbor author known for His Family explores social bonds and personal conflict through intimate character studies.
The Future of Love and the Fate of Men
A man predicts a century hence emotions will dominate life and governments will fade. He warns men will bear the brunt as homes and marriages evolve, arguing wives seek romance as eagerly as husbands seek stability, challenging common views of male philandering.
Modern woman sheds laws that kept her chained to home
A provocative quote argues that a new era of female independence will free women from restrictive laws and customs. It predicts a future where women pursue multiple marriages and alimony, with a warning for men if these changes fully take hold.
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Congress
The Future of Marriage and the Independent Woman
A narrator muses on shifting roles for women, predicting fewer monogamous marriages, longer lifespans, and urban living with nurseries atop apartment hotels. A psychiatrist argues love will evolve as emotions become as understood as science, while many women pursue careers, balancing job, children, and home.
Slip and Pantie Set Pattern 9662 for quick home sewing
Pattern 9662 offers a rayon or crepe slip with fitted bodice and all in one straps plus waistband panties that lie flat. It promises smooth fitting at low cost and lists sizes 12 through 42 with a note that size 16 requires 35 percent.
Whales Attack Fishermen Near Stonehaven New Brunswick
Three men aboard a 25-foot boat fought off five whales off Stonehaven, New Brunswick. An attacking whale tangled in an anchor chain and the others repeatedly charged the vessel before the crew freed the line and the whale. The remaining whales surfaced and charged again before disappearing.
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Stonehaven
New Brunswick
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept ad with order details
The ad offers a pattern with a complete diagrammed sew chart and requests a 15 cent payment in coins or stamps. Readers should print name address style number and size and mail to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept 367 W Adams St Chicago N11. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Nipponese Typists Master 2000 Character Keyboard
Nipponese typists face a 2000 character keyboard as typists hand-pick slugs from a type tray. Each Katakana sign requires precise knob alignment and sequence to form ideas on paper. A metal arm transfers ink across the paper as the drum advances with the typing action.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hopeful note on bonds and future social change
A wistful reflection by a prospective great grandfather and married man asserts that in a century many bonds will break and people will act as they please, a view published by Public Ledger Inc and WNU Service.
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Public Ledger, Inc
WNU Service
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McGoofey
H. J. Phillips
Psalms OF Life
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Luke
Willie Arthur
Michael John
Phillips
Magnesia
MR. Dean
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Dizzy Dean
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U.S. A
General Foods
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Mich. W. N.Y
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