Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ones publicly roasted in the correspondence column making that like yours an amusing feature. Result the paper grew out of its native earth and some fine story writers and poets uncovered. Condensation was the main need. Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged...
...ugly'- which means, I suppose, that there is no longer any law of God which is binding upon us and that our only standard is our own taste of preference. If this is true, if there is no law of God which must be obeyed we need not wonder if our young people adopt 'companionate marriage' or any other suggestion. Judge Lindsey's advocacy of 'unmarried unions' [TIME, Jan. 24, Feb. 28] is publicly commended by college professors, writers and other well-known people, among some ministers of religion...
...rented his machines by the mile or hour to drive the machines themselves (Driv-ur-Self [TIME, June 21, 1926]) last week extended the idea to motor trucks. The Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co., General Motors subsidiary which he heads, now rents one-ton trucks to people who need a light truck either occasionally or for some emergency. In Chicago the Driv-ur-Self truck rates are 22c to 25c a mile...
...impossible that she should be aware as she lay there, so small, soft and yielding that she was indulging her most powerful instinct, the instinct of possession, the longing, the passionate need to possess that she had inherited from generations of fiercely grasping Gartons, men who had torn possessions from the grudging hand of life. . . . Her adoration of Hugh was rooted in the knowledge that he was hers, as nothing had ever been, as her son could...
...note savoring of genuine anguish last week, as it reverberated from many an haut parleur.† Said he: "My name, la marque Poiret, has been damaged, my art thwarted, by American women who have not used discretion in buying or copying my creations. . . . Each robe Poiret is meant, need I say it, for one certain type of woman. Mais . . . [with nasal protest] les dames Américaines, what do they do? Alas! Too often an American woman of one kind buys in their shops a Poiret gown which is not for her. . . ." Many who listened sympathized; but wondered at what...