Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe bet that whenever TIME pans a (Continued on p. 69) movie that movie is usually a darn good show. I can't conceive of anyone not liking Showboat and in my opinion Laura LaPlante did better work in that play than she has ever done before. Also she does not meet the description with which TIME credited her. That is the only picture I can think of now which got panned but I know there have been others...
Administration of so called "criminal" justice can be greatly improved by fewer rigid laws such as those of the Jones 5 & 10 calibre. Bigger and better prisons and jails would not be needed if our present laws would demand that the intent of the accused to commit crime be established as per requirements of malum in se laws, rather than the laws which our "overworked" and zealous legislators hand out known as malum prohibition laws, where criminal intent is not essential to commit crime and to become a "criminal...
...them-pay the post office for distribution only one-third the rate required of commercial publications. Naming names, he declared: "There is no reason why the Christian Science Monitor or the Elks Magazine or the National Geographic magazine, all of which are big moneymakers, should have better rates than other commercial publications...
Advertisements. Mr. Parkes obtained few advertisements for his Gazette. They were mostly for sales of plantations, "for money or tobacco, very cheap . . . containing 200 acres of good Land, with a good bearing young Orchard, of Variety of Good Fruit Trees. ..." Printer William Rind, a later owner, fared better. Sometimes he was able to insert as many as two pages of advertising, dealing with "Run Way Slaves," slaves to be sold, slaves arrested and refusing to give names of masters, doctors who were about to open a season of vaccination, lottery winners, sailings of ships. Advertising costs were indefinite: "3 shillings...
...schoolmarms, Secretary Crabtree's predecessors and successors. Former dunces and scholars of Teacher Crabtree heard him urge them to combine to demand from Federal and State legislators educational facilities equal to those of city schools, just as they are combining to merchandise their produce. They were advised to better their schools, make the farm-bred healthy and wise, keep them on the farm...