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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent in my life. A little knowledge of the past: a sorrowful experience of life itself had give to me some idears very different from those of many other umane beings. But I wish to convince my fellowman that only with virtue and honesty is possible for us to find a little happiness in the world. I preached; I worked. I wished with all my faculties that the social world would belong to every uman creatures, just so as it was the fruit of the work of all. But this do not mean robbery. . . "The insurrection, the great movement...
...last few issues of TIME, these words, which I cannot find in my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, have been used. By the context of sentences, I can guess at their meanings. Will you kindly define them, either by letter, or in TIME, or refer me to the dictionary used in your editorial rooms...
...devil. CRAIG'S WIFE - About a woman who dusted her house so carefully that it ceased to be a home. LULU BELLE - Lenore Ulric painting a brilliantly tawdry picture of a Negro dance hall girl. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS - In which three lonely ladies, aged about 40, find diversion in three young men from college. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - J. M. Barrie and Helen Hayes collaborating in a most satisfactory revival. AT MRS. BEAM'S - The terrible predicament of a boarding house which harbors a woman-eater. MUSICAL For song and electric sunshine these are recommended: Sunny, Ziegfeld...
Bounding out of bed, dressing impeccably, packing his suitcase, giving instructions to his chauffeur-whom he had gone to Philadelphia to find-vivacious young Publisher Vanderbilt then sped off for Los Angeles, eager for a fresh start on his already eventful career...
...gentleman in the picture was Francis Emroy Warren, 82, Republican Senator from Wyoming, senectissimus of them all, father-in-law of General John J. Pershing. The duties of snowy-haired, keen-eyed Senator Warren and his Appropriations Committee are to find out the financial needs of the various Departments of the Cabinet, to frame them into bills, to confer and bicker with the House Appropriations Committee, and to guide deftly the resulting bills through Congress. Then he is left to explain the Government ledger to the people...