Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States is being glutted with such pro-Prince propaganda as H. R. H.* I depend upon TIME to paint the truth, the whole truth. Now please let me apologize for "raking you over the coals." There are worse magazines than TIME - bunches of them! When I opened my "back mail" upon landing I found half a dozen magazines trying to boptlick up onto my doormat with "premium offers," like so many mongrel puppies...
...with my change of address. At the postoffice I had a copy of TIME weighed and bought the necessary folders on which I wrote my Italian address. These folders I left with the caretaker and each week he wrapped TIME in one and placed it again in the mail. For the small sum of 23? I received ten weeks of TIME and on my return I had three issues waiting for me which had been held while I was making the trip back...
Tickets for the dance to be held in Woolsey Hall after the concert may be had at the same prices on mail application to the Woolsey Hall. The two entertainments are not connected in any way, and tickets to one do not admit to the other...
Original Subscriber Cadwallader Evans [p. 23, Nov. 8] is too enthusiastic. His guess of 50% is all wet. I'll bet your returns do not amount to 1%, much less 50%. When direct mail advertisers regard 2% as a good return when they are giving good value, even TIME will do well to get even 1,000 people to "fill it in, encase it in an en- velope, address it, stamp it, mail it," when the "it" is a list of questions which can do the answerer no good...
...like carrying a mail bag. Why else should I do it for 39 years? You put a letter in a boy's box, and wonder what it is. You can tell, sometimes, when you see the same writing turn up about once in so often. Here's a check, and here's a dance invitation, and here's something that is as welcome as a check. It looks like a woman's writing, too. You feel as if you get to know people, and are glad when they get good news, and sorry when...