Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many "autobiographies" appearing in the popular magazines, that it was okayed by the subject. I am not criticising Mr. Coolidge. What he did was ethical. If Mr. Long comes to me with the same proposal I shall say, Go to it. But I am wondering if my fellow Vermonter isn't feeling that Editor Long is being over glorified when TIME gives such space to the mystery. Perhaps Mr. Coolidge's New England conscience is being (unduly) pricked, and that he wishes TIME hadn't stressed this Long achievement. But if Mr. Coolidge did write this copy...
...feature article in this number is a peevish and patently injudicious attack on Professor Lowes, and it isn't as though the aggrieved author confined himself to the existing and obvious defects in the courses conducted by him: he is personal to the point of impertinence, sarcastic far beyond the limits of taste. That the examinations in English 72 and 32 are primarily challenges to the omniscient powers of that admirable institution, the Widow's, anybody, most of all Professor Lowes himself, will admit. That this state of things is comic and fantastic, as well as probably futile, Septimus Cromarty...
...large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...
...taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when she isn't hungry...
...think I would like insurance; it's mostly all selling, isn't it?" This was the comment of one senior recently when I suggested the Insurance business as a field which offers opportunities. This is one of the illusions which is more or less prevalent and which is based on lack of acquaintance with modern business...