Word: print
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems a pity that some of the American papers should print such utter nonsense about the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that so many people appear to believe it. You underline a certain passage out of the magazine called TIME which you enclosed [TIME, May 24]. In that passage, it is stated that the Archbishop dislikes most Americans. That is totally untrue. He has visited America and constantly speaks of their kindness and hospitality to him. He has also many good American friends in this Country...
...Wind were big novels, publishers have lately favored what might be called the Weights & Measures Theory. This week Publisher Macmillan again subscribed to this theory with the announcement that And So-Vic-toria weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics were not so optimistic. Some believed that the newcomer's size might be due to glandular trouble. Others thought it might choke to death on its title...
...rather innocuous message by way of the English stage, he was able to do so in his novels and stories. One of these (Housman's favorite) was a mildly ironic, long-winded, pleasant phantasy called King John of Jingalo, which he wrote 25 years ago. Long out of print, it is now offered to U. S. readers because of a supposed similarity to the case of Edward VIII. A closer similarity is the one between its plot and that of Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart...
...volume telescoping four years as Governor, one volume for each of the first four years in the White House, the set to be published by Random House at $3 the volume so that hereafter when people write to the White House for copies of speeches that are out of print. there will be a standard work to which they can be referred. After the set is published, one volume a year through 1940 will continue to be issued to provide for Franklin Roosevelt's continuing output...
...here. Here there is no disfranchisement of the Negro and there are equal rights for women, all of which makes the Soviet Constitution the most democratic in the world." The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press in the U.S.S.R.. but last week the big Moscow newsorgans continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information...