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When he returns after this idyll, his family are still so impossible that he deserts them forever for Miss Cowl. Not, however, before she has given them a rhetorical strafing which is the epitome of hokum.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

At all meetings there was a plethora of papers read. The papers were cogent, instructive, inspiring; but how effective they would be upon bureaucratic health officers was a common rhetorical question in many a Chicago hotel room.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Public Health | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

By way of specific answer to all these rhetorical questions Signor Mussolini suggested with more vigor than delicacy that Italian husbands should prove themselves men several million times a year more often than at present. Concluded he: "In disciplined, enriched, cultivated Italy there is room for 10,000,000 more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Big Black Words | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

British Bechuanaland. Dr. Will J. Cameron, Chicago dentist and inventor of surgical instruments, is an amateur anthropologist. He believes that Roy Chapman Andrews, hunting in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia for traces of man's origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Certainly Professor John Cunningham M'Lennan of the University of Toronto knew that his speech before the Professional Institute of the Canadian Civil Service, at Ottawa last week, was one of rhetorical exaggeration. They were lunching and Canadian ministers and high governmental officials were at the tables. Professor

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canadian Research | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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