Word: sages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other publishers have been finding out that funnypapers are potent moneymakers (TIME, Feb. 18). And at the age of 67, the Sage of Emporia has long since learned to compromise. In excellent health last fortnight, Editor White issued the week-end edition of his newspaper with not one but 29 comics in a gaudy 16-page tabloid. Moreover, the entire news section was printed in tabloid to conform. It had taken a brash young salesman for United Feature Syndicate six months to change the White mind but now, reminded of his oldtime vow, Editor White was ready to say: "That...
...unsuccessful attempt at fanciness. Disguised under a bewildering variety of names, for which the French usually have to take a new and unpleasant responsibility, old stand-bys like stew are eventually discovered. Only initiates, through long association, remember that Milanaise, Fricandeau, etc., are inevitably connected with certain dishes. One sage diner successfully adopted the simple plan of steering a proportionally wider berth, the longer the French name...
...barring from state ballots of political parties preaching "sedition or treason," or the "overthrow of the government by force or violence," is pending in eleven other states at present. The most vigorous supporters of the bill are the American Legion and the Eiks, both having been inflamed by the Sage of San Simeon's anti-radical editorials. Opposing the bill are the vast propaganda resources of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Curry's Homewood Flirtatious, paired with Doctor Blue Willing, found eight coveys and two singles on the first day of the trials, the judges might have suspected her of being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes later she nailed a single. As stylish as she was quick, Homewood Flirtatious backed her bracemate beautifully on Sulu's two finds, made two more of her own in the next...
...carry them to Utopia, and strange as it may seem, their maker at the time. So we have given up gazing at these colored balls and their tinsel instigators, and wait for the word of our President who is well-intentioned even if circumstances make him sometimes an inaccurate sage...