Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Edwards, TIME's sincere apologies and one locomotive with, nine Nassaus. To the editor who fumbled such a life-&-death fact, a penalty of half the distance to Princeton...
...Falsehood it is. The French Government bought the land, gave it to the U. S., tax free and in perpetuity. The story may have arisen from the fact that some U. S. soldiers died in France long after the end of the war, were buried privately...
...bawling news boys with their "read all about it" trumpet call, really do announce those headlines to everyone within earshot. Our people just yell vaguely and you can never make out what they are saying, but this particular news placard of the Evening Standard just said "Peace Threat." In fact, having already between us killed about 100,000 people, the highly civilized countries of Europe are suddenly threatened with Peace. That such a prospect should be described as a disaster is some small indication of the state of mind to which we are all degenerating...
...restive, hard-boiled New York publishers at their Book Fair, he delivers a long baccalaureate sermon on the history and joy of literature. Too highly political to serve as a model for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, there is nevertheless a touch of Mr. Smith about Mr. Wallace; in fact, says Mr. Krock, "He is one of those men whom reporters can induce to talk when they shouldn't about things they shouldn't discuss...
...this week on Victor: Tommy Dorsy's "Stomp It Off." For the last year, this column has been panning Tommy pretty regularly for turning out nothing but obnoxious sweet music. Lately, however, Tommy's popularity rating has been taking a beating. Evidently he has finally worken up to the fact that one of the biggest factors in his decline has been that the fans felt that all his pieces sounded the same--that they could tell what a new Tommy Dorsey arrangement was going to sound like long before they heard...