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Observers who scanned, compared and digested the conflicting & partisan despatches which flowed from China, last week, were convinced that the Japanese Staff dicta were impartial, enlightened, basic, sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Expert Opinion | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...taste. The Old Grad has always been, and is, too much for this reviewer to wade through, and the Conversations Overheard at a Department Store Art Exhibit can hardly be appreciated unless one has been to the Jordan Marsh jamboree. Oh, by the way! Most of the critical dicta in these conversations might well be applied to the Lampoon itself, depending on one's prejudices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewes Finds Current Lampoon Has Dropped Traditional Brooks Brothers Garb--C. H. Platt Applauds the Change | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...nothing; a man is everything," said Napoleon in one of his most famous and tersely paradoxical dicta. Much the same remark, somewhat differently phrased applies very well to the latest play by William Hodge, "Straight Thru the Door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1928 | See Source »

Erskine 885. Studebaker Dicta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: National Show | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

While this did not tally with my own observations in the matter, I nevertheless found that I must bow to the dicta of the fair sex. Still curious, I asked Ethel Kelly, novelist and humorist of repute, to discuss this question. She did so. In her articles, which having ordered I am forced to publish, she dismisses the Princeton man with a word. Why? Have Princeton men no social graces? As for Yale she slays them; humorously to be sure, but completely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

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