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...about in a natural impulse to help me. Nothing I know how to say will prevent them. Personally I am baffled. But I'm wondering if you can't help me?" Questions of this latter type?deal-ing with the problems of modern "nice people" who are often servant-less???give Mrs. Post scope for something new in conduct counsel. She advises servantless hostesses to give buffet suppers, and thus remain cool, charming?it is as simple as that Additionally, of course, the new volume revamps some 600 pages of Mrs. Post's well standardized advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Conduct | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, loud, vituperative John Roach Straton told a vast throng that crowded the Calvary Baptist Church what he had beheld one morning in Chicago. Two holdups, no less???two foul crimes had Dr. Straton witnessed on a sunny morning while riding through the streets of Chicago. This statement was too much for some of the citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atonement | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...however genuine, can afford in a fight to give his opponent the tremendous advantage that complete frankness about himself and his views would give. Hence, as a matter of self-preservation, all candidates deceive the voters more or less???some to a large extent and on important issues, others to a small degree and on trivial questions?but they all humbug a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Humbuggery | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

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