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...Your action was mean and lacking in sportsmanship. You owe Mr. Crane an apology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...lavish series, handsomely illustrated. The McGuffey's survived this onslaught only by those sterling moral values which had made them a byword in the land, a staple commodity at every general store. That they have now vanished utterly from schoolrooms will be difficult to prove, especially since they owe their whole existence to what many claimed, at the time, was a miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tradition Eclipsed | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

That if Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth should run for Congress she would certainly win; that most women now in Congress owe their position to being widows or wives of onetime Congressmen, not to their own merits; that women in Washington "pull the strings of power"-all this said Miss Vera Bloom last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Million | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...books, obscene magazines, obscene newspapers and obscene plays [nice word, obscene-a word to get a kind of circulation with] are multiplying with astounding rapidity throughout every corner of the United States! [Exclamation marks are sometimes effective] ... Women's clubs, churches, teachers and all decent folk in general owe it to themselves to face the facts- the sinister facts, as set forth by Frederic F. Van de Water in 'The Obscene Drama' in the April issue now on sale, ten cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pawky Promises | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Therefore let there be violins and, for this once, even let there be saxaphones. Tonight a Gothic gaiety envelops Cambridge. The Gothic we have always with as hat the gaiety that we owe to the ladies. As Tiny Tim observed anent something or other God bless them every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN PBEFER BOTH | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

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