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...London society of which he has such wide and intimate knowledge is the background for his latest essay. People literary, artistic and scientific are his actors,--people who would normally be expected to have lofty aspirations which flub completely in the face of situations and forces quite as common as any existant in a lower social strata...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: Human Satire | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

...Cushman of the American Farm Bureau Federation to join the agricultural subcommittee. Notable were omission of any attack upon the protective tariff and an implied promise to enforce the 15th Amendment (votes for Negroes). The latter, coming from the pen of Carter Glass of Virginia, was accepted as conventional flub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Platform | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Much of the majesty appertaining to the great New York Times has resulted from its stern refusal to print "features,"-i.e. comic strips, "colyums," Nell Brinkley claptrap, Dr. Crane flub-dub. Nothing but straight, reliable news went into the Times, soberly written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: About Face | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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