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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred to control of the Department of the Interior-a transfer which has long been proposed and often postponed. Secretary Davis said: "Never has the government of the Philippine Islands been in so satisfactory and promising condition as today." And Secretary Davis said: "Had each of the departments of the United States government participated in the administration of the islands to the extent which we are accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Report | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...accepts the situation with the bitter resolve that having returned from the hell of war into a world of swine, he will himself fight and grasp and be a greater swine than all of them. It is a strong play, conviucingly acted, and it has the unpleasantness that is often the companion of truth...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

There is more than one way of telling an untruth, but perhaps the most insidious way is that of omission. "The Devil can cite Scripture to his purpose" for this very reason. A statement divorced from its context is often capable of an interpretation that is directly opposed to its real meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stratified Straton | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

...vois la crayon," calls Jean gaily over the telephone, and Arthur who has been courting assiduously for months is plain stymied. "They give me the cold shoulder," is too often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S'IL VOUS PLAIT | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

Several selections from the "Well Tempered Clavichord", often reproduced some what clumsily on the pianoforte, will be rendered on the harpsichord, an instrument very similar to the one for which these selections were originally written. Much of Bach's music was composed for the old-fashioned harpsichord. Mr. Whiting considers the combination of flute and harpsichord as the best medium of interpreting Bach's pieces, as it makes the best reproduction of the instrument on which Bach originally wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITING TO PLAY BACH'S WORK IN PAINE TOMORROW | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

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