Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...say I have no brains. Let us take the Binet test. If I do not beat you I will give you a prize. You have no right to a seat in the Senate. You know it. The disenfranchised Negroes know...
...living in a wretched single room, forgotten, barely able to keep alive by the pittance he earned as a broken-down lawyer's clerk. "Think! A clerk," said M. Poinaré. "Remember that in his day Antoine Monis was among the great lawyers of France, that is to say of all the world. . . . "Messieurs. For the honor of France we must rescue Antoine Monis from destitution. The Government lays before you a bill to grant him an annual pension of 24,000 francs ($960) for the few years that he has yet to live. . . ." On such a bill...
...British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Cried Arch-Tory Churchill: "Last year we had Mr. Cook. This year we have Mr. Chen. One rose among the murky coal pits in Britain, and the other was nurtured in the balmy air of far Cathay. When I say the balmy air of far Cathay, I am not certain that balmy elements have not found representation in both cases. Cook is an orator, Chen is a literary man. Both, curiously enough, seem to draw inspiration from the same fount...
Contributions have been slow and from too few people. Financier Cutting knew that, but instead of coming to the cancer society meeting last week, he sent a letter. Financier Thomas W. Lament, who was there, read the letter aloud: "I write to say that I will contribute the last $250,000 of the $1,000,000 endowment fund which your society is endeavoring to raise, if the whole amount is subscribed by Oct. 1. When $750,000 is paid or subscribed, I will pay the $250,000 of my pledge...
...only criterion of whether or not a sex play is pernicious is good taste. And good taste is a criterion impossible to apply, not only because good taste and public taste differ. Good taste is too evanescent; it is impossible to say offhand what is and is not in good taste. Furthermore, a great deal of the most offensive drama and literature breathes a vociferous odor of sanctity. The strength magazines, and the "art" magazines reek with it. The manager of "The Drag" says he would show the play in a church, and asks censors to point out exactly what...