Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liked Cambridge. We liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
...noted with interest your magnificent advertisement in the New York Herald Tribune purporting that TIME was the first choice magazine among U. S. Bankers and their wives, Railroad Executives and their wives, etc. as well as BEST customers of BEST STORES (surely not Best & Co.) ad infinitum. It behooves me to take up the cudgels for the thousands of subscribers (myself included) that read TIME who do not come within the descriptive category of your advertisement but who nevertheless find the magazine interesting, unique in style and not "over their heads...
...Yale east their votes for co-education. It was not that Harkness Gothic is more erotic than Harkness Georgian. Rather, the Northampton girls thought up an irresistible "argumentum ad hominem": "Both men and women would be happier; and when you are happy, you can work better." And play better. For reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Saturday night an enlightened man. Indeed, the girls of Smith would associate themselves with the goal of every true college man, the pursuit of the "durable satisfactions of life...
...Nineties photographs which illustrate many of the advertisements are obtained from Brown Bros., oldtime newsphoto agency of Manhattan. The picture of the young man in the "Faery Soap" ad of the current issue ("Whoops! I'm just curazy about Faery Soap!") was taken from a French postcard...
...broadcast last week.* Several radio stations claimed credit for the hookup. It was due to the enterprise of Newark's WOR alone. At the appointed time St. Gandhi refused to be hustled from his dates and milk; his flustered hostess, Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley House, was forced to ad lib for many minutes. At length the Mahatma approached the microphone, prayed for a few moments silently. Then millions of U. S. listeners heard his first words: "Do I have to speak into this thing...