Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to scold, but I changed my mind when I received this week's issue. In today's issue of The Boston Traveler I read what is almost a duplicate of your story about Sen. Curtis of Kansas and decided that TIME isn't killing so much of it after all. I'll say TIME is "going some" when it prints its stories ahead of the newspapers...
...Derby, Yale '27: "There isn't any beet. Also, the University is too spread out both physically and bureaucratically, which takes away from the college spirit and the ability to find one's way around...
...turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until the end of the last...
...years ago, at the exhibition of the John Quinn Collection in Manhattan, old ladies and dilettantes gathered round an object, gaping, making a murmur of "Is it a bird? If it isn't, what is it? Whatever it is, is it art?" It was tall, shiny, spindling, like a magnification of an exclamation point, like a Freudian symbol. Manufactured by famed Sculptor Constantin Brancusi of Rumania, it was titled, with a supreme disregard of appearance, with an arrogant, baffling simplicity, "The Bird...
...fame obviously little need be said; as to the latter, the Vagabond would like to make a few remarks. For the Vagabond has had an opportunity to judge the matter pragmatically (keep this point in mind), he has asked, "Is he?" and the reply has echoed far. "He isn't." No one who wandered across the Anderson Bridge on Saturday and found his way into the Stadium would accuse those assembled of indifference...