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Today — December 2, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A black-capped chickadee and a squirrel.  From The Outdoor Book by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Divination by the leapings of an occult cat.  From Odd Creatures by Dum-Dum, 1915.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Brigantia, 1989.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1930 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mademoiselle Bouffante."  From Shadowland, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1984 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun in the Radio World by E. Boyd Smith, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "Flosofee" plant.  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's acorn man is from Pour Amuser Les Enfants by Victor Delosière (undated).
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

From The Smart Set, 1923:

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It is Expressionism brought to the perusal of temperamental inexpressionism. [Nathan]

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in which Voltaire is exhibited as the hero...who devotes his life to changing from one Sulka dressing gown to another, making epigrams... [Nathan]

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[The play] has its moments, but they are swallowed up in its hours. [Nathan]

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[Singular "shenanigan" dept.]
Ervine has covered up the whole obvious shenanigan... [Nathan]

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[Pirandello] is the dramatist of a theme's ghost. [Nathan]
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[Bonus: A book satirizing censorship, entitled Nonsensorship.]
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