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...their interest around debating clubs could, as a last resort, accept positions as radio announcers. Nor should those who spent four years being strenuously social feel slighted, for there is a growing demand for accomplished entertainers for out-of-town buyers. In fact there seems to be only one flaw in the plan, and that is the inclusion of the facial reproductions. It should be observed that the milk maid's remark to the effect that her face was her fortune has never been proved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO-GETTERS | 1/15/1931 | See Source »

Career. Lord Dawson is reputedly the only peer who has succeeded in keeping his age out of the register of the British peerage. This deliberate obscuring of his biography is the only flaw in this otherwise impeccable nobleman. However: he was born March 9, 1864, at Duppas Hill, Croydon, Surrey, England, to Henry Dawson, an architect of sufficient contemporary repute to be elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects. His mother was one Frances Emily Wheeler. Somewhat more than 40 years ago the then Bertrand Dawson was a comparatively poor but comparatively elegant medical student in London. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A King's Physician | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Playwright Owen Davis is to be praised for having written a whopping good thriller. Even the most iconoclastic devotee of mystery fiction could find no flaw, no cheating on the part of the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...distinct gift for story-telling. The publishers call it a "spirited, sparkling tale"; such it is, and as such it will appeal to the majority of its readers. It is more improbable than most fiction, but if one discounts this feature, which may or may not be a flaw, the story is enter-taining enough for the warmest summer evening...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: Biography | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...into every important aspect of college education and environment, and even beyond into the needs of the society of the future, Dr. Little fearlessly debunks the outstanding fallacies of modern flights toward the Olympus of the intelligent. His work is both idealistic, and practically progressive. There is scarcely a, flaw in the details of the modern system which he leaves unprobed. His suggestions for improvement, though sometimes open to serious debate and theoretical scepticism, cry out for a fair trial and an unblased judgement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Colleges, Poetry, and Life | 5/8/1930 | See Source »

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