Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised to find, in your Jan. 5 issue, an item captioned "Strayed," for the real story about the elk which leave Yellowstone Park in the winter and go outside the boundaries to feed was told to me by Superintendent Albright a few weeks ago when he was our guest here in Washington. The real feature of this story was that it was not "unpitying hunters" who slew them but the natives living outside the Park. Each hunter is allowed one elk. Mr. Albright said that men, women and chldren were firing into the herd and, after it was all over...
Jack in the Pulpit. Robert Ames, who has given two excellent performances in The Hero and Icebound, is now the defendant on two serious charges. Item: He has become a manager. Item: He has produced a fearful play. In fact, he has produced one of the season's worst. Which, in this scrambled season, is almost a distinction...
...Difference Does It Make?, Editor Swope shouted for a stenographer and dictated It Makes a Lot of Difference. "Perhaps if my friend Bruce Barton were a more consistent reader of newspapers, he would not have committed himself to so many fallacies as he does in this article. Because one item in his paper was unimportant, he argues that all items are unimportant . . . Not so long ago some shots were fired at royalty in an insignificant village near the Serbian border. The Bartonized man would have asked 'What difference does it make?' He had-and has -his answer . . . Make...
Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. TIME Dec. 20, 1924. New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: In your issue of Dec. 1, you have a disparaging reference to Charles Bellini, the first professor of modern languages in the College of William and Mary. The writer of the item gives the impression that Bellini was one of the vine dressers who accompanied Mazzei, under Jefferson's encouragement, to Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1775; and that after his failure to develop a successful vineyard, Jefferson raised him from the rank of laborer in a vineyard to the position of professor...
...definite program before our entry into the World War and had computed approximately its munitions requirements under the program, our effective entrance into the European conflict would have occurred months sooner than it did; and the consequent saving in lives and money would have been enormous. In the item of leather goods alone, we estimate that $200,000,000 could have been saved...