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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest you add good manners to the list of virtues you may possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...term "pander," as you should have recalled, is derived from the proper name "Pandarus." Need I add that Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare all represent Pandarus, a son of Lycaon and leader of the Lycians in the Trojan war, as an unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

These payments add up to a total of $2,407,000,000 for the 62 years. They are officially calculated as repayment of the principal with interest at rates from 0% (for the first five years) to 2% (for the last seven years), but this is done only to save the face of those politicians who have clamored for repayment of every cent of principal. It might just as well be calculated that no principal would be repaid but that interest of from ¼% to 4% would be paid for 62 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Italy's Debt | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...fact. The Socialists have bolted from the Herriot Radical-Socialist bloc, which it was hoped would solidly support the new Government. This left the residual Radicals, and indeed all the individual factions, in a "majority" position, and caused the statesmen of France to spend an arduous week trying to add up and juggle the various groups into a real majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Courageous Straddling | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

Vivienne Segal sings most of the songs, recalling for many the pleasant afternoons and evenings when she was in Oh Lady, Lady. Ritz Brothers, three of them, vaudeville favorites, add absurdities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 16, 1925 | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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