Word: printings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand pages could one print the speeches and tracts which Dr. Bratt has poured forth during the past decade and a half, striving always to keep Sweden in the middle road of individual liquor control. The last straw vote of Swedish prohibition societies (in 1922) showed that the 1,800,000 Swedes who wanted total prohibition in 1909 have dwindled to 889,000; while the cohorts of Brattism have swelled from 20.000 to 924,000. Thus the fight is just beginning...
...wife is Actress Peggy Wood of The Clinging Vine (musical show), Merchant of Venice (Portia), and Candida fame. Since becoming Mrs. John V. A. Weaver she has burst into print (Saturday Evening Post) with advice to would-be actors...
Curious is the fact that U. S. and British news organs, when libeling or exposing, make incessant use of such phrases as "alleged," "charged," "understood." Legally it is quite as libelous to pussyfoot, "John Doe is an alleged swindler," as to boldly print, "John Doe is a swindler." Psychological explanation: writers and editors feel safer when they pussyfoot, as do ostriches with heads in sand...
...political acumen, prescience or coincidence that caused TIME to print on its. cover the pictures of the vice-presidential nominees of the two major parties just before they were nominated? It was easy enough, of course, to predict who the presidential nominees would be, but to pick the right men from the great numbers of vice-presidential aspirants was quite another matter. Congratulations, TIME...
Club-Fellow readers recalled that Publisher Duval had announced a change of policy when he purchased the weekly last March (TIME, April 9, 16). "Gossip, innuendo and scandal," he pronounced outgrown. Under new management, The Club-Fellow would print "not a line or a word, an innuendo or a criticism from cover to cover, that can offend or displease." Almost immediately, it printed the "well-worn gossip of the "estrangement" of the President and Mrs. Coolidge...