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Word: fulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties, prejudices, Mother's days, fishings, bathings-a whole satirically tinted landscape of Gentile normalities. Lonely, without angels, relatives or the Christ, Lewis quits this stupid paradise, flings himself into the river, returns to the Bread of Life. Author Nathan's mysticism is mischievous, grace ful-perhaps too much so to be taken seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mischievous Mystic | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Admiralty, Albert Victor Alexander, whose first task may be to scrap some of the proud ships he now commands. Labor Sea Lord Alexander is a former Baptist lay preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty one of the most important in any government. Last week the Baptist Sea Lord studied hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Birdsong & Findhorn | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Donald Fay Robinson, young Harvard poet, presents a short collection of extravagant naivetes with, now and then, a youthful trumpet ful of sophistication. The book contains about forty poems dating from 1914 and the pre-college days of the poet. Among them can be seen the fragile pattern of a young man's philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Books of Poetry | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Miss) MARY FAIRFAX Chicago, Ill. Let not Teacher Fairfax continue to "censor" from TIME such truth ful items as that to which she takes exception, but rather explain with patience the distinction, ob vious though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...facts about Childs restaurants, facts which were not denied. Ac cording to the account, the management, which had shrewdly established white as symbolic of the cleanliness of foods served by the 3,500 white-clad waitresses in their 109 white-tiled restaurants, is as shrewdly beginning to insert cheer ful green among the white tiles. "Younger and prettier" serving girls are to be hired and are to wear uniforms trimmed with green. "The girls are just the same as the tile," an officer of the company is alleged to have remarked to the Sun. The gayety of color is supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Improved Childs | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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