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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...getting good results on your Special Deliveries, it would be a good idea to change the man who supervises it and put in somebody that can get results. If the boys are not faithful and prompt, change them. If you are in a dilemma and cannot get anybody to deliver your Specials, take a substitute or a regular or anybody. Just make it a business to get those Specials delivered, and delivered promptly." Fancy Language. Far different from the accent of the First Assistant Postmaster General was the accent of a bulletin issued last week by Third Assistant Postmaster General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Fashions in Statements | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...been said before of the extra-curricular activities, has a whip for every man's hobby. There are few who have not at least one such hobby-even if it be nothing more than a small spark struck by some chance reading; there are fewer still who cannot find among the courses given here some encouragement in the pursuit. To aid in the pursuit has been one of the tasks of the Vagabond; from the observation on the Alumni Bulletin it has not been an altogether thankless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOURNEY'S END | 11/12/1927 | See Source »

...CRIMSON representative, "of losing our Washington traditions in Cambridge by a failure to erect a suitable memorial. There seems to be a tendency to destroy the traditions and the reputations of our national heroes. The Washington Elm is a tradition of which Cambridge should be proud, and which cannot easily be relinquished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WASHINGTON ELM MAY RISE IN STONE | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...presents. It is usual to say that the little boy-king prefers his toys to his throne-that it is usual when newspaper correspondents have nothing else to say; for it is not to be supposed that a mere child has any feeling about a throne and therefore cannot have any predilections in that direction, On his birthday, certainly, his toys were his only thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: More Carol-ings | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...defend a woman, this character knocks a policeman down in the first scene, unwittingly killing him. He is jailed for five years, and spends the rest of the play's nine scenes fleeing his jailers and his destiny. He evades the jailers but cannot dodge himself; in the final scene he gives himself up to the pursuers to prevent a clergyman from shielding him by telling a lie. He has been at various times in the piece a murderer, a thief, a beggar, but throughout a gentleman. His finer nature traps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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