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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reflected in an increased social effectiveness. If one seriously seeks to acquire a facility in the usages known as good from, there are quicker and more sure methods than an iterative attendance at eight o'clock dinners and prolonged sessions given over life dance, whose monotonous four-four rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz. But from this very sameness is inculcated a habit from which the plastic age finds it hard to depart Parties become not only more frequent but more lengthy and the rigid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHICH I KNOW YOU WILL NOT" | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...allowed the younger of them from allurement that no longer tempts burnt children in the upper classes, Humanitarianism, even if unsupported by a common love of parents for offspring, should prompt the amalgamated parents of Boston ton consider the feelings of the mothers and fathers of Harvard sons. Too often this latter, less prominent group tardily discovers that an earnest devotion to the Boston side of a Harvard education cuts short the availability of Harvard itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHICH I KNOW YOU WILL NOT" | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Thank you so much for the article in TIME. I am turning it over to my Business Manager. Somebody in your office knows all about us folks, and I have often wondered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...just fills me right up," replied the Man with the Brown Derby. In a choked voice he promised to come back, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exit | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Generally speaking, Britons maintain their dining and living rooms at irregular temperatures, often much below 60, and millions cf British bedrooms are never heated. Hence warming pans full of hot coals are slipped up and down between glacial sheets before the sleeper snuggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cool King | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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