Word: adds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen. We can take a leaf from our success with the News and put in a couple of pages of news photographs-everybody likes pictures. And a few of that not-too-serious kind of article that gets away strong in The Saturday Evening Post. Oh, yes, and add a few of those 'inspirational' articles that the American Magazine makes its living by, and some of the women's heart stuff and patterns-the things that sell women's magazines. We can print the whole thing by 'coloroto' the way we do our Sunday...
...main objection to the whole bill is the unwarranted expendi- ture of the money of the taxpayers. It proposes to add more than 25% to the cost of the pension rolls. It is estimated that it would bring the total pension bill of the country to a point higher than ever before reached, not-withstanding it is now nearly 60 years since the close of the Civil War. A generous nation increased its pensions to well over a quarter of a billion annually, and has already bestowed nearly $6,250,000,000 in pensions upon the survivors of that...
...sense of the theatric saves the play from the Elinor Glyn class. But it is like spoiling a good bedroom farce with too much cheap philosophy. Phoebe Foster as the harried heroine hardly fosters interest. She is pretty, but wears dresses that add nothing to her charm and years to her age. One wonders that Lee Baker, who grates his teeth as well as he can in the sinister role, does not prefer Lilyan Tashman, who seems at least as real as her slang...
...will be of very great importance in the manufacture of lenses for optical instruments, especially cinema, photographic, and astronomical. It may add materially to the efficiency of the best existing telescopes...
...University Heights without any flourish of trumpets, without any imposing victories to their credit, the Springfield players went to work in business-like fashion and completely outplayed their over-confident opponents. Gates, a slow-ball pitcher of slight stature, buffaloed the B. G. sluggers throughout. He is out to add to his fame this afternoon at the expense of the Crimson...