Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are TIME readers. Especially, commend the Foreign News Department and the Chinaman. I have made a detailed study of China and of course, it is flattering to me to see a previous personal opinion expressed in TIME. I should like to correspond with your Chinaman-to know him better. Allow me to second all that Subscriber Sternhart (TIME, July 25), has said. He has, figuratively, taken the words from my mouth. , CHARLES HAMILTON
Last week he was in Toronto to lecture to the International Bible Students' Association convention there. Mr. Aylesworth, better than his promise, gave his sharp goader all his radio facilities...
...race, perhaps they would have felt the same simple gratification as the audience when the unsung hero got the girl and ended the picture. Paid to Love (George O'Brien, Virginia Valli). The picture involves a mythical kingdom and a case of mistaken identity, but does better than might be expected considering these handicaps. One Gaby (Virginia Valli) is hired to teach Crown Prince Michael (George O'Brien) how to love, and does...
...GOOD WOMAN?Louis Brom-field?Stokes ($2.50). This book were better left unpublished. Coming on the heels of three splendid predecessors, the last of which (Early Autumn, 1926) won a Pulitzer Prize and brought the author back from his European haunts in a triumph of press-agentry, it is a sorry letdown. Florid, artificial, repetitious, it is incredibly dull and sloppy work to come from an author of Mr. Bromfield's well-earned reputation...
Philip's father, a handsome, slippery little dog named Jason, is brought back from 26 years of supposed death for no better purpose than to furnish comic relief to the sagging last third of the book. At the end he is killed off, by a drunken fall on his return trip to Australia, where he has an informal second wife and family...