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...person. And one of the chief reasons for their leaving when he does not appear is that the Presidential message, if a good one, is better seen than heard. It is an almanac and there are only two ways of coping with an almanac?to ignore it or pore over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The State of the Union | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...geauteous evening, kalm and klear, although this rom is a biti close and shomewhom I feel filled with a spirit of kindness toward everyone. The sight of this halph emptee botle before me bringgs tears to my eyes bekau%e I shink of alll the pore people in the woorld who are ztarving. 1's pozzezions are always transchient howwever even this fine giftt is schlipping into eternitty"s and oonly a bitt remains too be absoldfed igto theehereafter. Ztill if we kan remain cheery %oe)) and blithe az I am ouur trobles will passs...

Author: By Williams LION Whelps, | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...Latin Comedy on the plays of Ben Jonson. I vastly prefer Iowa, where you can get at least an A. M. for a first rate job of stage production. I think it is a good deal more important today to develop a Ben Jonson of our own than to pore endlessly over the works of one dead three hundred years. Certainly Broadway this past winter has borne heartening testimony to the fact that many American Universities think so, even if Harvard doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

Grosseteste was a man of supreme courage violent temper and prone to indiscretion. Yet he was one of the strongest of the reformers within the Church itself, pointing out fearlessly wherein its defects lay even to the extent of laving before Pore Innocent IV and the cardinals a written memorial in which he ascribed all the evils of the church to the malignant influence of the Curia, and violently opposing Rome when I came into conflict with the national clergy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

...pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Fuzzy Wuzzy | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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