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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experts at explaining matters clearly with a few words - hence my appeal to you. E. H. ALLFREE Ironton, Ohio Let Subscriber Allfree read p. 12 of this issue to his club. - ED. May Marry Sirs: There penetrate are to some their things bottom so - if deep I they cannot have any, which I doubt. One of these is the principle upon which you decide what marriage notices shall and shall not appear in TIME. I give it up. Suppose I should take a notion to marry - would I be likely to get the same mentioned in your daffy weekly? Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...appear to shine like a good omen in a world of unweaned radicals. But examination proves it to be no more than a tardy sanity. "No more Reforms" signifies nothing, since reforms in the best sense result only from a desire to remove evils, and even the cheeriest optimist cannot hope to forestall all corruptions. The News' resolve to avoid platforms is praiseworthy, only because such platforms are usually a collection of meaningless sentences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BETTER PART OF VALOR | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...other journal will defend Boston's single woman of spirit, the Crimson must remain a single champion of local genius. In a lady ectoplasm cannot be treated lightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIRIT AND TRUTH | 2/9/1927 | See Source »

...Mayor of St. Mihiel, the Municipal Council and the Cure have all complained! When they look to find what the Massachusetts memorial is they see a wide-open speakeasy run by squatters. It is a dump with old shacks and tumble down buildings on it. The French authorities cannot interfere, as it is Massachusetts territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disgrace to Massachusetts | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...evident. The pressure of life, of civilization, of the machine, of the group, of science, of any one of the bugaboos which are our modern dragons and goblins, upon the individual, has become immense. That the Verlaine of absinthe and pomegranites should make a pilgrimage to the Holy City cannot seem entirely unrelated to the somewhat sordid suicide of four promising American undergraduates within the space of a few weeks. The only explanation that is sufficiently vague to be true is that of failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable, remorseless environment, an environment of natural hardship and of social...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYNTHETIC SUICIDE | 2/3/1927 | See Source »

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