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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen of Troy, N. Y. Mr. Kaufman and Mr. Connelly play handball with the Babbitts of the collar industry through one of the most amusing musical-comedies ever seen. The plot isn't too obtrusive, and there's lots of pretty music as well, and a young lady called Queenie Smith displays herself as by far the most worth-while person of that cognomen since the time of old Captain John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

Next day the Tribune replied: "Mr. Bryan says we misrepresented him We'd regret that if it were true, but it isn't"-going on to accuse Mr. Bryan of using "the favorite trick of the political dialectician" and ending with the remark: "We are not quarreling with Mr. Bryan because he believes or disbelieves but because he wants laws to make other people do and think as he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bryan vs Chi Tribune | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...United States. French journals and continental papers in general are not and do not call themselves newspapers. They deal not in news but in highly flavored comment. They represent some man, some group of men, some cause. Certain of them are openly subsidized by the Government. But the Government isn't the only keeper of the French press. It is said that any nation which wants to float a loan in France must first send checks to the French dailies. It is known that the Tzar's Government had on its payroll the most respectable Paris papers. And during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journals, Not Newspapers | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

RAIN?The United States Marines collaborate with Jeanne Eagels (as a lady who isn't no real lady) to ruin the unco guid-ness of a peevishly pious missionary while tropical rain pours down incessantly on the just and the unjust and shivers chase each other on the audience's spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jun. 25, 1923 | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...like the highly purposed fraternity because it is our assurance against menacing organization. In the very naturalness of association men band together for mischief, to exert misguided zeal, to vent unreasoning malice, to undermine our institutions. This isn't fraternity; this is conspiracy. This isn't associated uplift; it is organized destruction. This is not brotherhood; it is the discord of disloyalty and a danger to the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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