Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even in 1776 they must have been indifferent, or perhaps they were at prayers, or crewding into afternoon tea at President and Mrs. Langdon's, or even throwing eggs at the Hessian military police in the hopes of starting a massacre. At any rate the artist of the University Theatre did not see any students near the elm. The picture of Mr. Washington was the best thing of the evening's boredom...
...takes his own life. Is it not enough for a mother to lose her son without being universally held up to light as the cause for the deed ? Her letter, written in the performance of motherly duty, in all probability had nothing to do with the case. At any rate, it does not fall upon you to judge...
...John Barrymore). It would be hard to discover a title that coos more tenderly to the box office or a picture in which an actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound for the U. S. and freedom...
When interviewed, the manager of the store chuckled over his coup as he watched the little group outside the window looking at the helmets, and observed that at the present rate of consumption the whole college should be equipped within the week...
...CREAM . ¶ There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶ They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported...