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Motion Pictures, 1894-1912Motion Pictures, 1894-1912 - Identified from the Records of the United States Copyright OfficeThe first public showing of motion pictures for a fee took place at the Holland Brothers Kinetoscope Parlor, 1155 Broadway, New York City, April 14, 1894. The making of motion pictures...
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Great Poems of the World WarGreat Poems of the World War N a fateful day in 1914, without a warning flash or tremor, there fell upon the world such a blast of war as human reason could not have foreglimpsed, nor Apocalyptic vision raised, to appall the souls of...
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L'umorismoL'umorismo Alessandro D'Ancona, in quel suo notissimo studio su Cecco Angiolieri da Siena,[1] dopo aver notato quanto vi sia di burlesco in questo nostro poeta del sec. XIII, osserva: Ma per noi l'Angiolieri non soltanto un burlesco: bens anche, e pi propriamente, un umorista....
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The Humour of AmericaThe Humour of America - Selected, with an Introduction and Index of American HumoristsWHEN the unfortunate man standing on the scaffold was asked by a spectator to make a speech, he said that, considering the interesting programme which had been prepared by their good...
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 17, February, 1921Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 17, February, 1921 - America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyAlong about the first of September last year, my cellar supply gave out and on the second day I had a look of languor like a homesick...
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Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaGleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaAn earlier edition of Gleanings having attracted the hearty approval of a limited circle of that class of readers who prefer a running banquet that hath much variety, but little of a sort, the present...
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The Erotic Motive in LiteratureThe Erotic Motive in LiteratureThis work is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It attempts to read closely between the lines of an author's works. It applies some principles in interpreting literature with a scrutiny hitherto scarcely deemed...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899 Prentiss had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course, turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss was a Florist to the...
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The Art of Theatrical Make-upThe Art of Theatrical Make-upLooking back on the method of production of this book, it seems to me not to have been so much a matter of toil as a natural growth. It seems to have produced itself, for my earliest photographs were taken...
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Breaking into the moviesBreaking into the moviesWere the average man suddenly called upon to assemble all the women in his town who looked like Mary Pickford, he might find himself at a loss as to how to commence. In fact, he might even doubt that there were...
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Samling af Swenska OrdspråkSamling af Swenska Ordspråk - i ordning ställde efter alfabetet, med tillägg af någre utur Latinen och andre Språk, liklydande eller motswarandeAt Swenska Folket frn urldriga tider haft en srdeles smak och fallenhet fr mrka och gt-lika talestt, fwen som korta Ord- och Sedosprk,...
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The NewspaperThe NewspaperSo common an object as a newspaper is seldom the subject of serious reflection. If any one of us should stop to consider what it is and why it is made, it is odds that he would think chiefly of one aspect of...
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Proverbs and Their LessonsProverbs and Their Lessons - Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and ElsewhereIt may be as well to state, that the lectures which are here published were never delivered as a complete course, but only one here and...
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Der Spiegel: Anekdoten zeitgenössischer deutscher ErzählerDer Spiegel: Anekdoten zeitgenössischer deutscher ErzählerIm Schatzkstlein steht die Geschichte des deutschen Binnenlnders, der in die groe Stadt Amsterdam kommt und vor einem stolzen Schiff, einem prchtigen Haus und einem gewaltigen Begrbnis fragt: Wer ist es, dem dies gehrt? Kannitverstan, ist die Antwort, und...
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Der tolle KofferDer tolle Koffer - Eine ff. prima Musterkollektion der besten Witze, Schnurren und Anekdoten von Reisenden und Kaufleuten Ein Schnorrer wird im Coup ohne Billett angetroffen und auf der nchsten Station rausgeworfen, nachdem man ihn tchtig verprgelt hat. Es gelingt ihm aber, bei der...
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Pleiades Club Year Book 1910Pleiades Club Year Book 1910But apply these and other bromidic definitions to the art and literature of to-daymeasure them up against the Sunday newspaper, or Peter Pan at the theatre, or picture exhibitions of the Independent Artists and the followers of Matisseand assuredly there...
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Vocational seriesThe Young Man and JournalismOne of the most important decisions a young man is called upon to make relates to the determination of his life-work. It is fraught with serious consequence for him. It involves the possibilities of success and failure. The social order...
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 16, January, 1921Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 16, January, 1921 - America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyNow that the British are agitating for a change in the American history text books, which, they charge, inculcates our future generations with prejudice against the original...
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The New SpiritThe New Spirit - Third EditionThere is a memorable period in the history of Europe which we call the Renaissance. We do well to give pre-eminence to that large efflorescence of latent life, but we forget sometimes that there have been many such new...
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Automata Old and NewAutomata Old and NewMay it please your Oddship, Brethren and Guests of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes. The origin of this little paper is very simple. Just eleven months ago we had the delight of listening to the very interesting and instructive communication upon...
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