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...think it's a weakness of category. You see, some Careful Greeters don't distinguish between the Cut and the Stare. I do. It may be splitting hairs, but I think there is a place for the Cut, the simple Stare, the Stare with modified eye-roll, and the Stare with lip movement. So that while I have sought variety, others have been content to remain in the simpler paradigms of greeting, and still use the common, or old-fashioned Stare on all occasions...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

...debts of the Mercury are paid, said Editor Mencken; it is showing a profit. Advertisers are faithful and enthusiastic. Imitators of the magazine have turned up, but the Mercurians never fail to "distinguish between the simon pure article and the second best." All enemies have been overcome, even to the "wowsers" of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strutting Magazineman | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Hello Yourself, patterned after Good News, is described as a "rah rah musical comedy," to distinguish it, presumably, from those which are merely raw. Its plot concerns a collegiate playwright whose play wins the play contest after he has been threatened with expulsion from college for helping a "pal" pay a gambling debt. There are many agreeable details in Hello Yourself; among them the hushed rhythms with which Jimmy Ray moves his feet in soft shoes; the wild noises of Waring's Pennsylvanians; and the antics of disjointed Dorothy Lee who might have been drawn by John Held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Schnebly, professor of law at the University of Missouri writes an exhaustive treatment of the rights of co-tenants in fee or for life, and remaindermen to distinguish by judicial process other interests in the land entitled "Power of Life Tenant or Remaindermen to Extinguish Other interests by Judicial Process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

Senator Borah's answer, in far-away-Tennessee and Kentucky, was to point at Nominee Robinson as an enemy of the protective tariff and to distinguish a conflict between Nominee Smith's and Nominee Robinson's pre-campaign attitudes on water power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Robinson | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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