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...figure rises, moves slowly towards the door, sways slightly, impervious to the thunder which rises like a cloud from the floor, trembles in the pendant air. The courage of Smith. Coward! I lack the ordinary manhood to rise and hand in this paper. When I was twelve years old . . . my stepfather hit me on the head with a paper-weight, . . . surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I will sit here, afraid to leave until the last minute has ticked itself into obscurity, because an inferiority complex shall follow me all the days...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

Japanese were widely content at the dissolution, since, in any case, the four-year term of the present irresolute Diet would have expired in May. It will now be possible to put into effect at once the new universal manhood suffrage law (TIME, Jan. 9), which will increase the electorate voting for the new Diet from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Dissolution | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...owned by the men who tilled them. Just how much leadership, spiritual and intellectual, are we producing in factories? Are we willing to sacrifice the character-building qualities of our present system for a more commercial one which may make more money for the few, but will make less manhood for the many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...undertakes a pretentious task and fails somewhat of doing it justice. "A President is Born", is an effort to portray the early life and development of a man who was to become President of the United States. David Schuyler, the character in question, is followed from birth to early manhood, and occasion is found to indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light of his hypothetical fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Page of New Fiction | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Anxious to lift the conversation to a higher plane, a lady from a Boston paper inquired whether Sir Thomas thought that jazz had affected the culture and life of manhood, "in the deeper sense of the word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANCIENT ORIGIN OWNED BY JAZZ SAYS BEECHAM | 1/17/1928 | See Source »

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