Author: L. B. YatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Picking Winners with Major Miles
Author: L. B. YatesPicking Winners with Major Miles (Classic Reprint)
Author: L. B. YatesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330675441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Excerpt from Picking Winners With Major Miles All good Kentuckians, and some who were not so good, knew Major Miles. He lived, moved and made his bets in the period between the passing of the gold millionaires of forty-nine and the advent of the steel magnates of nineteen one. He is still with us, but aging rapidly, bewildered at the times and the customs - the coming of Volstead and the passing of the betting ring. The blue grass belles of the Major's youth wore crinolines and long skirts. Their place was in the home, and flirting was their dissipation. The men attended to the swearing, the smoking and the drinking. But they did none of the first and little of the last in the presence of "the ladies, God bless them." The Major's code was the code of another age and of its sporting caste - a horse-racing, betting and at times, we fear, a none too scrupulous caste. But it had its hard and fast code, with its paradoxical points of honor. The major would have died before he would have violated this code - and he stood an excellent chance of being shot if he did. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Bookman
Author: The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
American Fiction, 1901-1925
Author: Geoffrey D. SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434690
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Part 1, Group 1: Books, v. 19 : Nos. 124 - 139 (February - March, 1923)
Book Dealers' Weekly
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1722
Book Description
Danger in the Path of Chic
Author: Lucy Moyse FerreiraPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350126306
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years. Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.
Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description