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...Best People. Too many younger-generation pictures have come and gone, making money in the process, for one to complain viciously of this one. If you are of the people who have seen a flapper annoy her mother and finally marry the family chauffeur, or any of a dozen variations on the popular theme-if you have watched and liked it, you will approve The Best People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 2, 1925 | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...words annoy me greatly in your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1925 | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

Both of these annoy me considerably. Especially should the "Milestones" column bear dates, and "New York" is as much a common word throughout this country and Europe as "America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...sneers at the religion of the Spaniards, she insults all Italians who are not Fascists, she expresses dislike of almost everything American, which is not merely silly, it is ill-natured and calculated, like a great many of her pages on her short visit to America, to annoy Americans and confirm them in the opinion: 'Britishers never like anything to which they haven't been accustomed all their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...only does it to annoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Parents | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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