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Word: deale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book, has sold over 2,000,000 copies since its appearance in 1904 is some index to the degree of sorrow and disappointment the public must feel. A difference exists between a country's literature and its fiction. Mrs. Porter wrote none of the former and a great deal of the latter, sincerely compounding sweet sentiment with what hard-boiled editors call "nature stuff" and giving her main characters capitalized titles that were really poetic to multitudinous readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great War who Married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Male Vegetable* | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

Skipworth, as gloomy old Mrs. Fisher, was imposing and none the less amusing. Other sound performances and a great deal of exceedingly Italian scenery rounded out the best evening in the season up-to-date. But it will take more than The Enchanted April to make it a good season. The Sea Woman. The loudest melodrama in some months came in under this title and unwrapped a good deal of sound excitement. On a lonely lighthouse lives a not very young woman and her reluctant ward. The latter longs for the land and love. The latter she has learned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...believed that he would like to make a settlement of France's debt to Britain before the French Debt Commission sails to deal with the U. S. on Sept. 16. The English wish to get enough from their French and other debtors, and from German reparations to pay the annual remittance on their debt to the U. S.- ?33,000,000 at present. They are asking ?20,000,000 a year from France.-M. Caillaux is expected to offer ?10,000,000. A compromise is not impossible at a figure something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To England | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

Senator King was of the opinion that all the Powers will eventually have to quarter their representatives at Angora for the simple reason that, if they wished to deal with the Government or, to put it another way, to compete with Germany and Russia, they obviously cannot do so from Constantinople...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Animadversions | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...genius, high courage and splendid patriotism of his son Winston. His notoriety was obtained by one endowment only-insolence, of the heavy 'made-in-Germany' kind." Churchill senior was viewed as a man who evinced "nothing but the increasing desire to eat, drink and sleep a great deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill vs. Publishers | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

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