Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevertheless, that is no reason why our descendants should not exist. Perhaps the earth will be unable to support quite so many people as now, perhaps fewer will want to live on it. Mankind, three million times as old, may be three million times as wise...
...York City newspapers, heard President Karl August Bickel of the United Press say: "The day of the hardboiled, cynical reporter with a bottle of whiskey in one pocket, and an American Mercury in the other, has passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition has come about largely by reason of the influence of young people. This generation is the best we ever have had. One young man, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, raised the tone of journalism 25% by his flights to Europe, and Mexico and Central America. And that is the effort of only one clean-minded American...
Long will it be remembered in Wall Street that last week's unparalleled bull spurt came immediately after a dull bear market, precipitated by a sudden break (TIME, Feb. 27). Equally long will market historians discuss the reason for last week's phenomenal spurt. The principal reason was the unexpected action of the officers and directors of the General Motors Corporation in purchasing 200,000 shares of their own stock in the open market for their own account...
...Furies. Murder, for playwrights' profit, is usually a sordid affair, committed in the first act and for no better reason than to provide a culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid...
...have squandered their money and who are forced to say farewell to the house they have lived in and the orchard they have loved, is merely an illustration of what a great dramatist can do with the theme of miser, mortgage, and out you go. There is no reason why it should be intoned, as if the stage were the rostrum in the U. S. Senate, with foolish, solemn wheezings. Only Edward Rigby, as the old butler who lies down at the last to die, locked in the shuttered house his masters have deserted, gives a really satisfactory performance...