Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from the President, that the first article had been written, but he had not the slightest idea of the contents of the article until I had received it and described it to him over the telephone. The story is the ex-President's own story in every manner, shape and form. It is amazing to me that anyone could dream that it was otherwise. No "ghost" writer-as those writers who put stories into shape for prominent people are called-could have put into a story the sincerity which Mr. Coolidge embodied in his story. (Signed) RAY LONG...
...admirer and a loyal reader of TIME. It occurs to me to make a suggestion that a questionnaire having as its theme "Why Don't You Visit England?" would bring out all manner of interesting comments and criticisms which would reveal to us on this side things we ought to put right if more and more American visitors, who would greatly be welcomed, are to come to us. I pass the suggestion on to you in this rough way. It would, I think, produce most interesting material. SYDNEY WALTON* London, England Let readers say why they do not visit...
...Sheedy: "All other trans-Atlantic passenger vessels serve liquor. . . . The law does not place American vessels under any handicap in this particular. ... If passengers desire wines and liquor, we must, to maintain our position, do the same thing as our competitors. The Sheedy plan will operate in this manner: Under the law the Leviathan may carry some 97 gallons of wines and spirits for medicinal purposes. Beyond the 12-mile-limit on eastbound trips, this supply will be opened and sold to passengers. At Southampton and Cherbourg the chief steward will purchase an assortment of drinks for the westbound trip...
Wild Orchids (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The increasing sophistication of the picture business is well demonstrated by this story of a foreign prince, a U. S. millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady...
...longer will an Albanian husband divorce his wife at pleasure in the Moslem manner simply by exclaiming three times, "I divorce thee-thou art no longer my wife!"* The minutest private acts of Albanians need no longer conform to the precepts of the True Prophet. Finally a salutary Swiss provision against carrying concealed weapons will completely alter, if it can be enforced, one of the most cherished customs of Albanians, who have always gone about with loaded pistols and sharp snicker-snees in their dirty blouses...