Word: addenda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quick calculation showed this to be, in effect, a 20% undercut of telegraph rates. Seductive may be the lure of the added two words. Useful addenda to many a message: "much love;" "feeling fine;" "home soon;" "lovely weather;" "send check...
Besides providing these addenda to earth's natural equipment, the I. T. & T. stockholders provided for their own profit and comfort by re-electing directors who have supported President Sosthenes Behn in his amazing expansion of the business. Many financially conscious persons noted for the first time that two of the company's directors are Spaniards, one count, one marques...
...elect as a hardboiled, outspoken cynic, Mr. Tully has been put to it to keep his crudeness spectacular and not merely crude, especially in his writings about the Hollywood notables whom he met when living with Charles Spencer Chaplin as strong-armed, sympathetic major domo. But these circus addenda to the Tully autobiography (Beggars of Life, 1924) return to a milieu wholly comfortable for Mr. Tully, where he can exercise his storytelling ability with no private emotion more complicating than a half-hearted wish to trade his literary life for the disheveled simplicity of a circus once more...
Your department of "Letters"is very interesting, particularly so since your correspondents generally confine themselves to pertinent addenda to news you have previously published. But just why you publish letters such as that over the signature of A. P. Taylor (TIME, Feb. 1) is beyond...