Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your paper, TIME, is the best "news" paper I ever saw. As soon as I can spare a $5 from our "bread and butter" needs I will subscribe...
...Milan a potent firm of Italian piano manufacturers received last week a note on impressively crested paper: Dear Companions in Sonorous Construction : Upon the arrival of the piano which I ordered from you recently its strings began suddenly to vibrate, drowning the sound of nearby church bells. Not without trembling I perceived that the shadow of Franz Liszt, who was once a guest here, had entered the instrument and was producing with long immaterial fingers a beautiful rhythmic tempest. "This is a place of mysteries and prodigies. Rejoice with me!" (Signed) Gabriele d' Annunzio Gardone, Lago di Garda...
Wallpaper. The landlord who let his tenant select her own wallpaper, the homeowner who fidgeted while his white-overalled paperhanger butted the paper like a crazy-quilt, the rural housewife who hung her own−they spent $40,000,000 last year, bought 350,000,000 rolls, kept more than 40 U. S. wallpaper manufactories busy. The Wallpaper Manufacturers of America last week noted that this was more than the 323,000,000 rolls of $34,755,000 value...
Tall, blonde, "rangy," handsome editor Carl C. Magee of Albuquerque last week stood his trial for manslaughter. His case had aroused the whole southwest (TIME, Aug. 31). A few years ago he went into New Mexico, began to publish a paper. He began to attack New Mexico's corrupt politics and the crowd of whom Albert B. Fall was one. He was accused of libel and tried before a Judge Leahy, who he openly charged was corrupt. The trial was sensational, a jury was gathered none of whom could speak English. Magee was convicted and sentenced for libel, then...
...appeared last week that the young Cornelius Vanderbilt IV string of newspapers was pretty well wrecked. About two months ago (TIME, May 10), the younger Vanderbilt was forced to asknowledge publicly that he was in financial difficulties and to call for aid-$300,000-to keep his three papers running. Soon afterwards his San Francisco paper, the Illustrated Herald, suspended publication, and his Los Angeles paper, the Illustrated News, went into receivership. Last week his Miami paper, the Illustrated Tab, failed to appear. The owner of its offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent...