Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just received the second copy of your magazine TIME. I find no pleasure in it. I also resent your spirit of the "wide-mouthed Southern Negro," since you do not know them as I do. Please find enclosed $.30, the price of the two copies and take my name from your mailing list and oblige. J. W. FAUT...
Said Bull-slayer Villalta, earner of $50,000 per annum for plying his trade: "I find that my audiences now expect me to completely despatch the bull in a maximum of 20 minutes. . . . Never, during my American tour, did I disappoint them...
What is the nature of social conditions existing in large office buildings? Recently the Japanese Government determined to find out, loosed a band of secret operatives upon Tokyo. From data gathered came a report last week. Extract: "Modern office buildings are veritable wooing quarters, where flirtations are taking place. The tendency to attempt marriage as a result of chance acquaintanceship outside the home naturally is alarming so far as the well-being of the nation is concerned...
...must be added to the triumphs of Ufa, German film creators. It is a dramatic picturization of the knife couple, of one of those who sit at the knee of Herr Freud. Why does nice Mr. Hero want to slit his wife's throat? Follow the dream and find out. Many a Freudian symbol will probably elude the spectator while a scrupulously scientific fantasy of the less definitely conscious mind is revealed on the screen. But the tense climax, the amazing photography cannot escape notice or fail of effect. When the psychoanalyst explains to the patient the cause...
...pedant has never been determined to the satisfaction of any one man, much less an academy. One may always accuse a scholar of being pedantical merely, as Professor Kittredge has pointed out, because his work is uninteresting to the reader as an individual; and the fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully gathered data, perhaps arid enough, which immediately catches the fancy...