Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers is the gently "snappy" way in which its items are written and its pose of sophistication, knowingness and slight derisiveness which is now the fashion. To me, whose business it is to know what is taking place in the world, TIME has nothing what ever to offer, except the comments of its staff and they have not the faintest interest. I have seen the magazine now and then and have frequently found it inaccurate and occasionally badly biased, besides being silly in hopes of achieving the light touch...
...cast leaves much to be desired. Mr. Mann carries the play entirely on his own shoulders except for some clever acting by Mr. George Farren, who plays the part of a small town banker whose eternal complaint is that "Money's tight, awful tight, tck, tck." Mr. Louis Hall, who has the role of Albert Kruger, the old German foreman who becomes imbued with the spirit of industrial democracy, does not give a very convincing performance. The acting of the other members of the cast is very poor indeed. The support is amateurish in the extreme; far more so than...
...send in to the present Graduate Secretaries their names, and information concerning the work they expect to do, and the time they expect to have available next year. Although this position requires a substantial amount of time, it carries with it an adequate compensation. Any student in the University except those who are now in the Freshman or Sophomore class are eligible to apply...
...been disappointed in love and was healing his own wound by taking care of others of the world's unfortunates. The girl he loved and her erratic husband were numbered in this considerable category. He cured them both and returned them to their happiness with no apparent purpose except the proverbially reciprocal reward of virtue...
...part of His Holiness's program of establishing the "Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ." Further in line with this program he announced also in his letter a new Catholic feast, the Feast of the Kingdom of Christ to be celebrated the last Sunday in October, except this year when he himself was scheduled to celebrate it by pontifical high mass in the basilica of St. Peter's on New Year's eve, that is, on Dec. 31, St. Sylvester's. Prelates everywhere were scheduled similarly to celebrate the masses of their powers...