Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This lurid statement has caused great mortification to the many readers of your magazine in Hankow, as well as to the said Butterick, who is made the subject of such unfortunate publicity. It cannot be denied that there exists an ample supply of this form of ammunition in this turbulent metropolis but it is not a fact that dung was flung at the gentleman in question. I was present in Hankow during the hectic days of early January and therefore am able to testify that I personally was not aware that dung was flung, and can also aver that Butterick...
...have just received my first copy of TIME and am sorry to say I am much disappointed because it is chiefly advertisement. The information is given in such fine type that I cannot read...
...made it safe for settlers and pioneers. . . . When President Harding was at Hoboken, watching the ships with the American dead come in from France, he uttered these momentous words: 'It must not be again.' That found an echo in the hearts of the people. But sentiment alone cannot carry us far. It suggests, but does not attain. It requires action if we are to fulfill that great declaration. The agencies charged with this are the armed forces...
...value of this acquisition cannot easily be exaggerated. It is said that a preliminary examination of the contents of the cases which have been opened leaves no doubt that this purchase is the most important single one made on behalf of the Library since that of Count Riant's collection of books on the Near East...
...fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette...