Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs : I believe I must have been the old gentleman" whom Mrs. Charles Phipps (TIME, Feb. 14) recently saw on the subway reading a copy of TIME. Perhaps, however, I may set her right in the mistaken impression that I turned and spoke to a stranger at my side about the excellence of an article in TIME. The gentleman, Charles Edgar Bowdoin, is my colleague of many years. That we should have been mistaken for strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN...
Subscriber Sherman is right. TIME had no business to "read the motives" of the Untermeyer case...
...Judith I lost entirely, probably because I never made much of a study of that portion of the Book. The other was on why do the people object to the carillon* and I still think I was some way right on it. My answer was, "because they are not spiritual enough to desire the kind of music we usually get from that class of instrument." And don't you think if they were in harmony with those things they would be glad to have them ? . . . I would like to have more of things of the Kingdom and Jesus from...
...Section 29, sonorously eloquent, affirms that no power of censorship is granted to interfere with the right of free speech. BUT "no person within the jurisdiction of the United States shall utter any obscene, indecent or profane language" by radio. This would technically bar most Manhattan plays and many an opera...
Peers sat robed in scarlet, gold and ermine. Justices were capped by wigs as large as beehives. Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras. Even Edward of Wales stood decorous in his place at the right of the throne. A moment earlier he had tripped over his own sword and almost sprawled. The picture seemed sufficiently magnificent, yet His Majesty sat waiting. The delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members...