Two weeks after I emailed my complaint, GoFundMe has finally replied to let me know they've taken down the page that was set up without permission -- but they're happy to "republish ... at any time to manage your presence and access donor insights." 🙄

I'm serious, I will pay hard subscription dollars to the publication that does this. Annual subscription, not that month-to-month nonsense. Start a Buttondown or something. I hear a lot of Teen Vogue journos are available ...

I have a whole newsletter that’s just stuff I found out while trying to find out OTHER things! buttondown.com/thingslearne...

that's not about helping people, that's about being able to decide who is "worthy" of help ...

😬

There's a very "we're sorry if you were offended" press release now promising to take the pages down: www.nonprofitoregon.org/wp-content/u...

Maybe this one? www.ebay.com/itm/16767237...

Ah! You probably want one of the Webster's New Internationals, which is easier since there were only three editions, and the Third wasn't published until 1961. :)
If it was: big and had a bunch of color plates, I'm betting it was the Second (1934).

Goodreads is terrible but they do seem to have a lot of cover images: www.goodreads.com/work/edition...

Here's a search link for 1940-1959: www.google.com/search?tbo=p...

Then you'll get results like books.google.com/books?id=5VM...

But maybe @petersokolowski.bsky.social has a better idea?

Hmm, I don't have a lot of M-W dictionaries from that era, but ... they did a LOT of advertising! So you should be able to see covers by searching Google Books for magazines in that period for the exact phrase "Merriam-Webster Collegiate" (because Collegiate is a trademark)

Aren’t you also in PDX? You’re welcome to come over and take a look at my shelves :)
There’s also the Cordell Collection in Indiana, maybe their collection will spark something? library.indianastate.edu/c.php?g=1439...

I did NOT know about Lamb House, thank you! And that’s a very good shape for a Tuesday, in my opinion 😂