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...kindest critics could only say that the girl Uldine was too young to catch the meaning of such lilting verses. To the Preacher Progress is futile, Effort ridiculous, Work leading but to the grave. Well might Utley-urged readers doubt whether so spirited a young lady would knowingly propagate this doctrine of Quietism, which all good U. S. citizens despise as encouraging to slothfulness and indolence; which is down right laziness and against the principles of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Handmaiden's Wisdom | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...this Christmas conviviality, staged in the imposing private office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill proved himself once again the most quixotic and perhaps kindest hearted of genial Premier Baldwin's; ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: The Chancellor Teas | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Woodrow Wilson Kindest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Presidents, Wives | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that by making himself a cynosure, Dr. Stokowski had spoiled his hoped-for effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestras | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

World Fairs may be relics of the mauve decade, in which case the failure of the Sesquicentennial is more easily understood. Such an explanation, though if he the kindest, is not the most logical, for a good jamboree will always attract the multitude. In some other cause lies the reason for the fiasco. And the most probable is that of a lack of preparation, coupled with an over abundance of graft. It is possible that the fifteen million dollar loss which she will suffer may teach Philadelphia the lesson of preparedness; and it is also possible that Philadelphia is through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER THE BALL | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

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