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The Author. One fact about Charles Kay Ogden would be enough to frighten most plain readers. With Ivor Armstrong Richards, another Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he wrote a book with the fearsome title, The Meaning of Meaning (1923). No mess of metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Internationalingo | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Jack's mother meant well by him, but he got so fed up with their niggardly life in a little Cheltenham shop, so eager to mix with chieftains in the wilds of South America, that one fine morning he ran away from home. Though he never got to South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picaresque | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

My wife get up in the morning about 6 or 7 am and go out. don't cook or clean the house she say she got to go to the cult to a Breakfast meeting. Of course after you turn over all your belongings to the cult you get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Like the sybaritic Ludwig who ruled Bavaria 50 years ago, Adolf Hitler has a fanatic admiration for the operas of Richard Wagner. King Ludwig liked to think of himself as Lohengrin or Parsifal, fixed up his castles with Wagnerian stage settings, helped finance Bayreuth when Wagner wanted a theatre of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hitler Over Bayreuth | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Sirs: Am just a bit curious to know by what authority you say in TIME Oct. 16, in speaking of Clarence Dillon (Read & Co.) "whose father ran a general store in San Angelo and changed his name from Lapowski to Dillon before Clarence was born"-because-and I speak in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

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