Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose I met him half a dozen times in my life . . . but he always left me with the feeling that he was essentially a good man. . . . I remember that once he gave me a copy of the memoirs of Sister Somebody-or-other, and I could not help feeling that he wanted me to absorb all the lessons of that good woman's life...
Last week Publisher Bernarr? Macfadden was haled to court. Superintendent John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, represented that he had received complaints against the Graphic's front pages from people with children who could not help seeing newsstands. The Tombs Court issued a summons charging Publisher Macfadden and some underlings with violation of that clause of the penal code prohibiting literature "principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...
Said the Bishop, as his boat pulled to its Manhattan dock last week: "The Church will win. It always wins in the long run. It will win by defending its rights in a legal way?and prayer will help...
Jack Publisher and scores of his brothers have come into being since patient monks copied manuscripts. Jack sends his wares to men who keep book stores. Jack and these men then put their wits and purses together to help Dick discover the book he wants, or ought to want. Dick is the man who reads the book that the storekeeper bought from the agent who came with news of the writer that sold his work to be printed and bound and distributed by the house that Jack Publisher built...
...itself but hardly as interesting as a more inclusive sheet. Undoubtedly the first function of a newspaper is, as the Yale paper says, "to purvey news." An almanac, however, performs the same duties but almanacs seldom hold the reader tense. "No more reforms" is a neat phrase; but heaven help an unformed formed Yale...