Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is, supposed to be TIME'S business. However, TIME sometimes publishes statements as news that are anything but news. In your issue of Sept. 28, Page 30, Column 2, you say that a contemporary of yours, The Independent, is "a very dull and amateurish sheet indeed." This isn't news; it is simply . . . opinion . . . The present writer has for several years been a reader of The Independent, and he regrets that he cannot agree with your editor that this paper is either dull or amateurish...
...hoped that the negotiations will be resumed, but it would be better for the Americans to come to Paris. It isn't the rule for a debtor to run after a creditor, purse in hand, while the latter dodges...
...Your paper is delightful. We all grab for it, but you put such ugly men on the covers! Can't we have a good looking woman for a change? I subscribed through one of those "boys working their way through college" at the door and hope my time isn't up ; if so keep going and send a bill please...
...Coolidge, in spite of the advanced state of the calendar, went walking on a hot day in his straw hat. Said he: "I have resurrected my straw hat; summer isn't over...
...well known Englishman happened to meet Page leaving his house. . . .'Thank God' the Englishman said, 'there is one hypocrite less in London today. 'What do you mean?' asked Page. _ 'I mean you. Pretending all this time that you were neutral: That isn't necessary any longer.' 'You are right!' the ambassador answered...