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Word: questioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote you recently that I could attend to the renewal of my subscription to your magazine on my return from Europe in September. I write now to say that I shall not renew. Your bitterly partisan and malicious misrepresentation of the Prayer Book Question in England & of the Anglo-Catholic party, have quite decided me in having nothing more to do with a paper that is so one-sided. Neither Anglicans or Romans worship 'elements,' but our Lord Jesus Christ therein enshrined. Your reference to certain clubs was unworthy and dastardly. Opposition does not worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing no mud at Governor Smith. He is honest, he is brave, he is intelligent. I don't question his motives. To get where he is with the crowd he had to do what he did and from his standpoint it was probably worth the price. But the real point of interest in that record for the American people now, if Governor Smith will defend it, is the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet and Wetter | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

President (rising and turning disgustedly away) Ghrh!! A Roman Catholic, a mystic ! Useless to question the type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Some of these American magazines really ought to hire a butler to keep them straight on the question of English titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Buttling Needed | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...bargee in question was one Isobel Stone, 23, lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bargee | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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