Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt whether there is a single lady or gentlewoman among your readers who was not deeply offended by the article in your last issue concerning, "women who measure off the scale of happiness in units of jewels, cash and fame...
...should have no place in a magazine for the home, school and family, such as TIME. "Brazen" is the good old fashioned adjective which I would unhesitatingly apply to the picture of the "Dolly" or Deutsch sisters with which you illustrate the story to which I object. No doubt you are right that they seem "worth while" to old King Christian of Denmark, but why give such "women" any place in TIME...
Such a question, such a thought was no doubt remote from the blank and infant mind of Princess Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya of Japan last week. She died without having reached the age at which humans become articulate to others and probably before she became articulate to herself...
...becoming more and more obvious that Horatio Alger was born long before his time. This ingenious concocter of a better class of dime novels furnished vicarious thrills by mere inherited dukedoms and paltry thousands of dollars--and no doubt shuddered to think what an exaggerator he was. But the Luke Larkins of his fiction are simply run off their feet by the financial leaders of this...
...Republican party must be cursing their fate that the first stages of a presidential campaign year should be featured by such revelations as the Senate committee is bringing to light in regard to the oil deals that took place in 1920. There no longer seems to be any doubt that graft was rampant in more fields than this one during the Harding regime, but here particularly lies the threat to a Republican victory in November. Dishonesty that took place eight years ago is not likely to arouse much public indignation now, especially if the guilt can be attributed to politically...