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Word: producted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Continental biography of the decade, if not of the Century. In point of fact, it is nothing but a book of gossip, biographically useless. It will make the reader wish that the author's memory had been a little more accurate and that someone had censored the product. It does, however, bring up a nice point of honor: is it compatible with the conduct of gentlemen to publish to the world the indiscretions of and essentially private details about his friends and acquaintances, most of whom are dead, or to reproduce mere club talk about them? The reader must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW BOOK: Small Talk | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...small body of professionals and the huge mass of private commentators on the cinema who possess a respect for literature have been raging against the tampering with titles these many years. Yet the manufacturers contend that thereby is their product the more easily and widely marketed. Therefore, Lily of the Dust. Which simply goes again to prove that the cheaper the materials involved in the manufacture of an article, the greater the profit. Pola Negri gives a perfect performance of Pola Negri. But as Sudermann's Lilly Czepanek (tall, fair and willowy), old friends of the book will disagree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 1, 1924 | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

Already one play has lived and died in an effort to retell the general narrative theme of Abie's Irish Rose. Reports from distant parts indicate that the producers of this uncannily successful product will spend much money through the season exhorting the population to beware of imitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tendencies | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...revive and enlarge his foreign markets; that, instead of lip service to the principle of coöperative marketing, the forces of the Government shall be put actively at work to lend assistance to these endeavors; that the farmer shall be supplied not only with information on problems of production but with information such as the dealer now receives concerning the probable use and demand for his product, so that he may be enabled to think as intelligently as the dealer in terms of consumption and demand. . . . He is entitled, too, to demand an adequate service of transportation at reasonable rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dixit | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...know it. I find a man in trouble. In a way his troubles may have come by his own fault. In a way they did not. He did not give himself birth. He did not make his own brain. He is not responsible for his ideas. He is the product of all the generations that have gone before. And he is the product of all the people who touch him directly and indirectly through life, and he is as he is, and the responsibility rests on the infinite God that made him. I do what I can for him, kindly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Clarence Darrow | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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