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The unwelcome guest, elaborately welcomed, is fair meat for "Elizabeth's" delicate irony. Gay and delightful in manner, there is no gaiety in Expiation-all marriage is discontent, all marriage disagreeable. And according to old Mrs. Bott, the negative moral is that troubles, being the stuff that dreams are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Backwash | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WORLDS GREATEST NEWSPAPER WANTS YOU AS ITS EDITOR IN CHIEF AND AS THE PRESS STATES YOU ARE CONSIDERING NEWSPAPER WORK THE TRIBUNE WILL PAY YOU A SALARY OF SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR TO START (STOP) YOUR POLICIES AND THOSE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARE SO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coolidge Exploited | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

"The King's is (and this is no mere courtierlike utterance) the most delightful individualism of all. His garments are carefully cut to suit his bodily form, yet with due regard for the mode. But his personality peeps forth in little touches. which doubtless please him and certainly make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Fashion v. Royal Style | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Could there be a more charming and delightful excursion into higher education? But the thing that really convinces us that there is something superior in the English system is the Latin grace which is inscribed in the common room of Wadham, and which celebrates the brown sherry for which that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Note on Education | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

Among historians Dr. Taylor's studies are the standard works on the history of ancient and medieval intellectual life. Philosophers turn to his books not only to profit by his researches but to obtain the benefit of his own interpretations. To the general public his writings offer an intellectual stimulus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TAYLOR LECTURES | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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