Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: It is reassuring to learn that you plan to limit the size of TIME to 80 pages. As an advertiser, I am equally enthusiastic over your decision. A larger paper would mean a less intimate one and, therefore, a less valuable one from the advertising standpoint. EDWARD P. BAILEY...
Life History Sirs: Probably you will be interested to learn how a copy of each issue of your magazine gets around down here: After spending a week in the public reading room of the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. it comes to me. My wife and I read it from cover to cover. It is then sent to Cumberland, Md., to my wife's home, here it is read by her mother, father and three sisters. It then goes next door to the minister's, where he, his wife and daughters read it. It is then sent...
...Premier Mussolini has decided that the best safety device for Italian vessels in foreign service will be to have the sailors learn English and swimming. Virtually 90% of our passengers speak English, and in case of danger or disaster it is highly desirable that the crew speak their language...
Scarlet Pages. A lamentable victim of bad drama is Elsie Ferguson, surely one of the most genteel and talented of players. In recent years she has several times displayed her auburn sightliness (The Moon Flower, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, The House of Women), only to learn that the chords of life which she interpreted were dissonances. In Scarlet Pages she appears as a capable woman lawyer to whom appeals a cabaret girl who has killed her father because of his incestuous attempts...
...Germans who picturized this history of intrigue between the courts of Louis XV and mad Tsar Paul invested it with such architecture and haberdashery as even opulent Hollywood has rarely conceived. Liane Haid plays the buxom, duelling girl friend of Pompadour who is sent, dressed as a man, to learn the state secrets of St. Petersburg. Interest focusses on Fritz Kortner's interpretation of the Tsar, for it is the role with which Emil Jannings scored in The Patriot. The malevolence of Kortner's Tsar is never mitigated by the lunatic innocence which Jannings managed to suggest. Both...