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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep a copy of Funk and Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary on my desk, but once in a while a word is used in your great family guide that stumps me; for instance, Urning, Lesbian (page 20, TIME...
...humbling of Leon Trotzky more abject, there came to light last week what purports to be an authentic "deathbed memorandum" by the great Lenin, warning Russian Communists against Joseph Stalin. This document, allegedly suppressed by M. Stalin since the death of Lenin (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), was given front page position last week by the New York Times and many another respected U. S. newsorgan...
Then on the very next page, backing up this article which implied continuing advertising ideals on the part of the Press, appeared a full page advertisement of one of the most notorious medical quacks in the U. S.-Dr. William Oakley Coffee of Davenport, Iowa...
...soon after, Quack Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis...
...title-page of this book must have presented difficulties. "English Version" of course signifies "translation"--Wendell's translation of a ninth-century narrative of Eginhard "with the constant aid of Teulet's French version." The word "Translation" in the title does not even signify the wafting of two saints from earth to heaven, but the theft of their bones from the Roman tomb in which they were interred, their stealthy removal from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne...