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...with shouts and squealings, might decoy a few newshawks to the scene of action. Newshawks would then fly to the home of Mlle. Roseray; there they would find a note addressed to the proprietor of her night club, a suicide note, of which this was to be the purport: "Because, you see, I love you." In the meantime, the rescued lady would be taken to a hospital, examined by a physician and let loose to an admiring world. After a day or two, there could be an advertisement in the papers saying: "Mlle. Roseray, now completely recovered from her recent...
When the treaty text was released at Rome its literal purport was seen to be the extension of last year's Italo-Albanian treaty of "friendship and security" (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926) into what the new document describes as "an unalterable defensive alliance for 20 years between Albania on the one hand and Italy on the other...
...purport of that message was that all Mormons should return to the underwear prescribed by first Mormon Joseph Smith (1805-1844) which left exposed only the head, hands and feet of pious Mormons and was fastened with strings. Winter & summer for three-quarters of a century, Mormons have worn such underclothes...
...first string college pilot are very difficult to predict. Close followers of the sport for the last few years have been surprised this year to see Kelley holding down the team A assignment. The coaches have so far made no comment on the quarterback situation and the purport of the reports that have proceeded from the scrimmages has been that Kelley is playing a consistent game and that he is satisfactorily carrying out his difficult task. Until the first game or two of the season gives someone beside the coaches a chance to get an accurate line on the players...
...amiable qualities" and then states that the conspicuous examples of "the latter" are too long to rewrite. The oft-repeated and hackneyed objection to "famed," "one," "onetime," and "able," is a poor substitute for criticism, and in any case there is nothing "false" about these terms, nor do they purport to be "fine writing." We know, as all writers (and especially journalists) know, that these words are overworked and unavoidably so, but to stigmatize them as "atrociously bad" is idiotic. Mr. Dowse has evidently not studied etymology or he would know that the word "atrocious" (Latin atrox, "fierce," "truculent") cannot...