Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article on Mr. Baker is the type of newsmagazine material which makes TIME entirely distinctive. Thank you for getting it for us. Then, the discussion of hypnotism shows your versatility. I wouldn't have missed it for a whole lot ; yet, where could I have read it except in TIME ? or some scientific work intended for professionals ? Your first DEPARTMENT OF FASHIONS is delightful. I didn't vote ? both the babies had colds about that time ? but my sympathies were all with "the one hundred." I hope they are as pleased...
...agents of George the Fifth from the land and smoking a brace of cigars simultaneously are only a passing indication of the range and color of his demagogical accomplishments. Along with "the World's Greatest Newspaper", another Chicago product. It is unbelievable that much of his yammering is lot of the tongue in the check variety Perhaps he is a great humorist, and there is a suspicion that he possesses certain good natured give-and-take virtues which would have delighted a Harvard audience had he been invite and accepted a request to speak in Cambridge. The John Roach Straton...
...whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...
...Pennsylvania, to back them up, the operators have obtained special state-appointed policemen, whose salaries the operators pay. Vice President Murray's report dwelt at length on the technique of these special policemen, whom he styled "gun-men," "thugs." Coalminers are not a fragile, thin-skinned lot but they were shocked by photographs Mr. Murray showed, by stories he told, of strikers with skulls bashed and cracked by rifle butts and axes...
...heard your chairman say that the press men's lot has improved in recent years. That is a new experience to me. A Prime Minister's work is much harder than it used to be. Telephones and motor cars have added most distractingly to the daily labors of a Prime Minister. I wish none of them had ever been invented...