Word: butting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Russians may not be essentially a jolly race, but somewhere about their bearded persons lurks a kind of laughing madness. If you thought them gloomy, morbid, humorless, you should have read Chekhov or Gogol's Dead Souls. Rather than go to the library for an old book, read...
Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense...
Only three years ago, U. S. tobacco advertisers felt that, though every one knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women...
These displays are undermining the very heart of our civilization. Let us save our boys and girls!" The council voted an ordinance. It affects only billboard advertising, but U. S. cigaret advertisers, remembering the famed Kansas anti-cigaret-advertisement statute, still unrepealed though not enforced, pricked up their ears, wondered...
Things are happening in Crowell Publishing Co. Last summer the Mentor was overhauled and spruced up (TIME, Aug. 19). Last month the American Magazine bade goodbye to Editor Merle Crowell (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be...