Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volume bound in yellow paper was the source of august discord. Already 100,000 copies have been sold, for the volume is the new Alternative Prayer Book of the Church of England (TIME, Feb. 21), recently approved by the Church Assembly, and submitted to the House of Lords last week. So important loomed this revised manual of prayer, that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in greater numbers than at any time since the World War. The four benches assigned to bishops towered with stiff regalia. Then up rose, to put the motion, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall...
Approving Fascist editors exulted, last week, that each unsent greeting will conserve to the nation "not less than half an ounce of high grade paper pulp," and will release the price of stamp or telegraph fees for "more constructive expenditures...
...pointed out that the Spanish of the documents is faulty, that the Hearst forces changed the date of one dispatch three times in three consecutive editions, and that no officials of any government which disburses secret funds for corrupt purposes are so stupid as to commit anything to paper. . . . The facts are set forth here for purposes of historical record...
...Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets down on paper an intense, concise, illuminating treatise on inebriety in its various manifestations. Despite the presence of some serious content, the almanack succeeds in being splendidly, entertainingly insane...
...speak accurately, it was precisely ten gulden too much!'" Three hours later, Bogner, still impecunious, and Rasda's uncle, whose wife had sent with him eleven thousand gulden for her inamorata, called at Rasda's rooms; Bogner saw a thousand gulden, a crumpled scrap of paper on the table where Rasda had thrown it. Rasda had shot himself. He was lying on the dishevelled bed, a sticky gutter of blood marked from his temple down to the collar of his uniform. The Significance. Author Schnitzler's books are sudden, delicate, glittering and sharp. Daybreak is like...