Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to express to the Editorial Department my keen delight in every number of TIME, its admirable condensed style, pithy news and incisive comments, at times caustic but never ill-natured, and also my admiration for the patience and toleration it shows to the microcephalic morons who so frequently vent their spleen and exhibit their ignorance in the puerile letters of complaint or protest over negligible trifles, which TIME fearlessly prints from week to week. May your circulation ever increase...
...predilection of the Japanese for this vigorous act was well shown last week, when a new Japanese cinema drama was released in which 47 of the characters commit hara-kiri to the delight of movie fans...
...story writer must not only know from what angle to present his anecdote if it is to give out all its fires, but must understand just why that particular angle and no other is the right one. This feeling of the mastery of the author is almost an invariable delight to the reader of one of Mrs. Wharton's books or short stories. The present volume is in the main no exception, but there is in the present volume an exception. "The Seed of the Faith," story of two missionaries in Africa, lacks that feeling of completeness, of an author...
Without completely violating sacred confidences, we might say that the pictures of Commander Byrd and the Norge taking off for their Polar flights are more than worth while. Another little hint for those who refuse to eat hash in restaurants, is that all persons who delight in humming accompaniments to the orchestral numbers are given an opportunity to express their musical talent legally en masse. The result is something of a revelation. But you can't have everything, especially when you take a chance. A gentleman named S. Brodie set the style some years ago and got out with...
Cleverest of sales arguments is a convincing proof of some point that needs no proof at all. The fuddled buyer, agreeing with the salesman before the latter has uttered a word, follows the ensuing exposition with delight, and his support of an opinion is quickly turned to enthusiasm for a commodity. No modern corporation has used this sales method with more humorous ingenuity than Colgate & Co., soap makers. Up and down the land, in all the better magazines, Colgate & Co. has suggested that shaving is sensible and whiskers are silly. Last week, for its support of this curious view, Colgate...