Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three times since the establishment of your magazine, I have felt impelled to write and congratulate you on the place you fill in my reading life. These letters always have been, frankly, applause for your initiative and for the maintenance of your ideals. The more I read TIME, the better I like it and even at the risk of dangerous repetition, I again salute...
...Saved Life...
...Stires,* herself a singer; for Sidney Homer Jr. and his wife; for the twins, Anne Marie and Katharine, 20, and for Hester Makepeace, 16, who could remember years ago being taken by their nurse to watch the same Egyptian princess; to Joy, 12, who had never in all her life seen her mother "dressed up"; to Louise Homer herself who was singing at the Metropolitan for the first time in eight seasons. For the audience it was just as memorable, for Contralto Homer had lost little of her vocal power and none of the grand manner that projected every little...
...employ of a Boston newspaper as an office-boy-just for a summer vacation period. He does his work well and is encouraged to give up school, to remain with the paper. Filled with splendid visions, he agrees. Follow years of small successes, small sorrows, marriage, babies, undimmed visions. Life's autumn finds Henry definitely shelved -almost pensioned-in the profession he has studied so long but never conquered. He still gazes up at glittering, obviously unattainable pinnacles. Author Williams has written without affection a convincing, saddening story of a man who loved beauty and romance but knew...
...strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have a special charm. The regiment of versifiers whom fame has fled is a fine and comfortable company...