Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure that the present régime in my country is doomed to failure sooner or later. In fact I am thinking of returning within a year after a stay in Italy, where I know I have the friendship of King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Mussolini...
...most disturbing features in connection with the many decadent productions that have been disported on the metropolitan stage this season . . . is the fact that they have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences...
...McCall's competitors, five are outstanding in the mass-publication field. It is probably a fact that if the publishers should transpose their covers, few readers could distinguish one of the Women's Group from another. But there are differences of size, value and fine distinctions of policy. The big five: Ladies Home Journal (circulation, 2,538,412), Pictorial Review (2,523,384), Woman's Home Companion (2,274,657), Delineator (2,300,000), Good Housekeeping...
...scheme and is at present under B. & O. control. Inclusion of the Wheeling & Lake Erie was a thrust against the Van Sweringens. Inclusion of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia would wreck trunk-line plans of the Taplins. A good example of the confusion attendant upon Wabash plan is the fact that the Van Sweringens and the Taplins, long feudists, were united in protest against...
...contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS I am a sort of a cynical cuss, Mellow and mildly sarcastic. My sensibilities hardly will muss Any more; they're elastic. I have aversions-God knows it-a score- Motor trips, talkies, recitals, College reunions-they...