Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Rogers is a credit to the American stage putting clean mind, brains, humor into a profession badly lacking such virtues. In 15 years I have never known him to be vulgar, insulting. Would I could say the same of TIME for three years.
To a gathering of pressmen he explained his note. Yes, he wore makeup. His profession made it necessary. Did he wear bracelets? For reply he held up his wrist, and the golden bands tinkled their momentary music. Sentiment, he said, had sealed their clasps. He would never take them off...
Massachusetts. Dubious relations between city, county, state and national officials, and the bootlegging profession are universal. At Lawrence, Mass., the typical defendants on trial last week were the mayor himself and his brother, a Chelsea police inspector. These brothers, by name Quigley, Mayor Lawrence F. and Inspector Thomas, were indicted...
The Author. In 1876 Master Stephen Butler Leacock, aged seven, of Swanmoor, Hants, England, decided to accompany his parents to a farm in Ontario. He attended Canadian colleges and taught in one of them until 1899, when he sickened of "the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid...
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It was to unite and reinterpret these objections, to save religion from reason and at the same time preserve science from skepticism, that Kant paraded methodically under the lindens at Konigsberg. He accomplished his task and inaugurated the era of critical philosophy by showing: that not...