Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extend a cordial invitation to any representative of the TIME Magazine to stop in at 581 Fifth Ave., wander through the softly lighted rooms, and see how fine toilet articles look "at home...
...President Taft ousted Pinchot for his attack on Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, who had become involved in a forestry scandal. His removal was apparently the end of his officeholding career. Senator Boies Penrose, who called him "Pin-shot," was his enemy and it did not look as if there was any political advancement for him in Pennsylvania. In 1920, to be sure, he was made State Forester...
...Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander to Syria (TIME, Nov. 9), employed a graceful and evasive "formula" for sidestepping ail questions regarding his much criticized bombardment of Damascus. Said he to correspondents who boarded the Sphynx at Alexandria, "Surely you need not question me, gentlemen. Let the Sphynx answer. Look around the boat and you will find many sources of truth...
...dead one, they treat his clay with reverence although secretly detesting the stiff and putrefying souvenir left behind. If a corpse must lie in the same room with the quick, its face is covered with a cloth or dissembled with cosmetics. Newspapers have recognized this unwillingness to look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been retouched. Instead of showing the actual body when reproducing the scene of a murder, a stock phrase was used...
Then it is Helen who is more inclined to look with favor on Orestes than is Menelaus-and Hermione grows jealous, for Helen is still Helen. The last scene is laid as Telemachus comes to the house seeking tidings of his father, Odysseus. Helen gives him a cup of wine. "He took it from her, his hand touched hers, and she smiled at him. It was as she had said; he forgot all his sorrows-as it seemed, forever. But the magic, he knew, was not in the wine...