Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American prejudices against the "Bally English" in conflict with English misconceptions of "boorish Americans" furnish the central Tenma. With a strange mixture of sympathetic concern and amusement the author views those absurd ideas that Americans have of England and the equally warped opinions that the English hold of America and its "natives". It is the old idea of the folly of prejudices. Perhaps this is why the author employs a conventional plot and technique and stock characters...
Miss Ediss not only succeeds in being "charruming", but presents the most amazing resemblance to her predecessor in the role. Perhaps, as Alick Wylie said, it was the curls. How painful was the concern of the three brothers over their sister. Why could not Maggie marry? And how gleeful were they when the luckless John Shand, student at Edinburgh, fell into their cluches and was bound to wed Maggie in return for his schooling...
Kingsley Wood, Conservative, gratuitously asked: ". . . whether before that decision was arrived at, consideration was given to the fact that the present holder of the office had found the emoluments of his office insufficient and had to go to a private concern?" (TIME, Sept...
Super-Tuchun Chang was exceptionally busy behind his lines. In a proclamation "To all whom it may concern," he offered $50,000 for the head of President Tsao Kun or that of Super-Tuchun Wu, his bitterest enemy. If he were permitted the great pleasure of seeing either one of them alive as prisoner in his own camp, the reward would...
...bankers who have acquired the Cusack Co. expect to make a public offering of the stock shortly. This is said to be the first time in the history of U. S. business that Wall Street bankers have taken over an advertising concern, and also the first time that shares in such a business should be underwritten and sold to the public through the Wall Street markets...