Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot forbear protesting the absurd criticism of TIME which you saw fit to publish in LETTERS, Aug. 31 issue - from which circumstance it derives its only claim for consideration. Never did I see a more inane, vacuous assertion than that the editing of TIME "is purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability." For it seems to me that more cleverness, more brains, go into the composition of a single issue of TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous...
...morning the cabinet had had a sitting, and then at the lunch hour the Premier had rushed off to call on the Governor General, Lord Byng. All afternoon there was another session of the Cabinet. And the evening saw still a third session-a very rare event indeed at Ottawa-lasting until just ten minutes before Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King had to rush to catch his train. Naturally he was tired...
When the scene of the disaster was reached, it was found that there was no suitable landing ground for miles around. Yet the reporters must land-and land they did. One pilot who cruised over the region reported that he saw 18 disabled planes, all partially wrecked in landing...
Next day she had the pleasure of seeing her picture in The New York Times?romanesque nose, sagging eyes, together with the skinny neck and long horselike upper lip which are so often the characteristics of the more unfortunate female members of the British nobility. She saw herself described as "a pretty young woman." The Daily News (for gum-chewers) went even farther afield...
...founder of the famed Chalif Russian Normal School of Dancing, Manhattan ?an establishment which has proved as remunerative as a tract of Florida real estate. Chalif is plump, prosperous, vigorous. His face invariably displays the bland amiability of one who is pleasantly stupefied by recent exertion. Once Pavlowa saw him perform...