Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name, as 100,000 readers of Author Will Durant's Story of Philosophy might now guess, was Baruch de Espinosa-Spinoza, for short. "With the judgment of the angels and the sentence of the saints" he was anathematized, execrated, cursed, cast out and cut off by the exiled people of Israel. His studies, once the pride of the synagogue, had led him to a mechanistic philosophy of life. He was not the first original thinker Jewry had disowned. Spinoza secluded himself and set up as an optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe...
Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...
...expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue...
...TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes: "I don't need to know what the Government is going to propose. Anyone can guess. . . . The Government will attempt to make strikes unlawful, except in circumstances where they are doomed to failure." Sir John Simon, famed for his great pronouncement on the general strike (TIME, May 17) rejoined: "The trade union law is in a muddled state. It would be well to have it cleared...
Telegram. Ask a Midwesterner who owns the New York Telegram. He will most likely guess Hearst, then give up. But he knows all about the Scripps-Howard newspapers. There are 25 of them scattered from Washington and Baltimore to San Diego and San Francisco. He will feel pretty certain that the Scripps-Howard chain has no link in Manhattan. Up to last week that was true. Then Chairman Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard organization announced that he had bought the New York Telegram, for a price not named, from the man who only lately acquired it (together with...