Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While I am not a subscriber to your magazine, which I find very interesting except when it becomes flippant with religion, I often buy it at newsstands and have been impressed with your "inside" information. For this reason perhaps you can answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night...
...newsmen might have thought they heard him say. Nonetheless, the ablest newsmen of the U. S. last week were certain they understood Mr. Coolidge's views on the treaty. This is what the President thinks: the treaty is good, but does not in any sense whatsoever constitute any reason whatsoever for the curtailment of U. S. arms in any degree or respect whatsoever. U. S. soldiers, sailors, marines, guns, battleships, mules, rifles, submarines, forts, gas, are purely defensive. The Kellogg treaty in no way invades a nation's right to defend itself or to prepare to defend itself...
Legger Dwyer, who had served a year and six months of his term. The reason: a very sick man was Legger Dwyer. After paying the government a $10,000 fine, he entrained for Manhattan...
...more recondite reason is possible. Tides, lunar and solar, of course influence ocean currents. When sun and moon act together their pull gives the entire ocean flow a mighty wrench and affects the climate of bordering land...
...Mysterious Lady. They say that Greta Garbo once went to see one of her own films and has never done so again. The reason: she was sickened by the long and langorous close-ups which delight cinemaddicts. There are plenty of such close-ups in The Mysterious Lady. But otherwise. Miss Garbo gives a dignified and stirring performance as Russia's greatest pre-War lady spy. The man in the case (Conrad Nagel) fails to click...