Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 25, I read Henry J. Weeks' letter, headed "Admires own Form." Later in a newspaper I read the following: 1st Flapper-I believe my vanity is getting the best of me. 2nd Flapper-Why? 1st Flapper-Because I'm always standing before a mirror. 2nd Flapper-That is not vanity, that's imagination. You might call this a coincident. A.M. OMDAHL...
...Letter (Paramount). None of the cinema's long succession of women testifying in their own defense has told as convincingly as Jeanne Eagels how she fired the shot that saved her virtue. None has begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the minds of the audience, which has seen her a minute before, transformed with fury, committing the actual murder. Rather an effective contralto phonograph record than a moving picture, the film follows the construction of Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white...
...Schoolboys' Anthem for Siam. Quite recently the venerable and sagacious ministers of His Majesty King Prajadhipok of Siam sat in conclave over a large official letter which had reached them from remote, outlandish Europe...
...first President of Slovakia seemed to be a Professor Mihalusz, at least he had signed the super-crisp letter. What more natural? Even Siamese know that the President of Czechoslovakia is Professor Masaryk. Obviously Slovakia must have seceded from Czecho, and of course the secessionists had chosen another professor as their President. The capitol of the new state appeared to be Trencsen, and why not? The whole thing seemed so natural to the statesmen of drowsy Bangkok that they thought it superfluous to drop a cable query Europeward...
...Robert's letter was selected as the most original by the unanimous vote of the committee of judges, numbering among its members men prominent in the New England automobile industry, and he was mailed the prize, a check...