Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonders also what this average magazine intends to do with its discovery whether he is to be preserved under class for posterity as The Man in the Street, or be released to his original obscurity. The latter would be more fitting: the average man, whatever, his virtues and fallings. Is not a subject for public praise or ridicule...
...such wise that it is thoroughly tedious, and disturbing, all in its atempts to be horribly classical. If you belong to the former school of theatregoers, there is absolutely no reason why you should not have a most pleasant evening at the Arlington Theatre: if you are of the latter type, the chances are very strong that Mr. Leiber's production will cause you considerable suffering...
...manifesto in question accused Ahmed Zogu of crass tyranny and attempted to show that he was the creature of Britain and Italy, with the latter of whom he signed the much-criticized Treaty of Tirano (TIME, Dec. 17, 1926). The document also advocated a Soviet regime as being the only means of freeing the "enslaved" people...
...story is told of two daughters, one frozen by the memories of a deceased brutal father; the other warmed by the hot blood of his inheritance. The latter increases the world's population by one surreptitiously but serenely. The former is unnaturally intent on nothing but good works. Both, finally, are attracted by an aggressive labor leader. Miss Ferguson is lovely but not always lucid as the looser sister. The best performance of the play is Nance O'Neil's. She portrays the mother, bloody but unbowed after many years of connubial fireworks with the barbaric father...
...River into the foothills of the Abyssinian border. The first he uses to question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer that question. Paris, we find, has its lures, but the call to "go somewhere," has also and the lures of the latter are apparently greater for we find ourselves wandering with the author through wild desert and dried-up-river beds that teem with game, especially buffalo. Pictures of the upper Nile, of strange places such as Makwar, of the valley of the Dinder, of Rosaries flit before us with amazing rapidity...