Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seeing your letter in TIME, replying to (not answering) that of Kingsley Leeds, about the Boy Scouts, I cannot refrain from saying that if you should happen to meet "little Leeds" as you call him, you would do well to speak to him respectfully. I happen to know "little Leeds" who is quite a youthful Hercules though good tempered. He might spank you and send you home. Truly yours...
...this sort of item which I most often have to "censor" out of TIME. Take, for example, your item about how the Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue...
...planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman's prey. Meanwhile Adam's wife, termed by the subtitle writer "his spare rib," almost floats to the wrong bosom...
...paralysis. The treatment consisted of injecting serum from a patient recently recovered from the disease into the bloodstream of a new case. In five cases treated, paralysis was stopped. But, because paralysis may develop long after a patient seems cured, the certainty of Dr. Martin's serum treatment cannot be yet affirmed...
...system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor but as a cable adjunct, a swift air channel for excess traffic which the cable cannot at present handle without delay, and as a cable auxiliary in case of submarine breakdowns...