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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is beyond all doubt the correct name for the only newsmagazine in these United States. I nearly fell off my comfortable and well balanced chair (and the whole phrase is meant literally) when I opened up the Nov. 12 issue of TIME this afternoon and found the complete election results, covered in your usual highly interesting style. That was an example of real speed on your part?speed I had not thought probable. TIME certainly makes full use of time...
...Wylie Paul Hunt.'' Then follows a farrago of inanities of personal description such as "once strong as an ox, now 69 and bald as a turtle," etc. and "No U. S. mustache is more famed than his. Once frowsy and walrusy, it is now smartly waxed." How, in the name of common sense does this latter connect up with or throw light upon his uniqueness? When the editor, or is it office boy? writes these biographical sketches does he not have available any significant data? Every time TIME has referred to this Grand Old Man of Arizona it has focused...
...means of transportation. It depends on a tardy correspondence and the plans of certain ever indeterminable parties of the second part. But finally out of the mass of delayed mail and frenzied telegrams there usually comes a solution and many are the improptu pallets of Harkness prepared in the name of the vague old days at preparatory school. And today, as lectures close, the game is on; may the best man come out cheapest...
...discuss the myriad affairs of the small town, for in a town where only Blacksmith Carlsen and the Postmaster are religious, there is plenty to discuss. The parson may be busy enough christening and confirming, but like as not the christened child has no right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter...
...confused with Show Girl, an unsuccessful adaptation of J. P. McEvoy's novel of that name...