Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Dec. 20, you say of R. Charlton Wright: "A few years ago, his quips outnumbered all others on the funny-page of the Literary Digest; often as many as a dozen were reprinted in one issue...
TIME has developed a fast moving telegraphic style all of its own that is extremely informative and entertaining. Speaking as a newspaper owner and publisher, I would say that if circulation and advertising departments will thoroughly promote and "merchandise" what you are selling, TIME has ahead of it a very successful career...
...occupy a station of the Yangtze Patrol Gorges at Ichang, just below the Yangtze Gorges. The trials and tribulations the Elcano met with in navigating the comparatively quiet stretch ot river between Hankow and Ichang make a legend dear to the hearts of the merchant skippers at Ichang. Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much as 15 miles a day. Yangtze rivermen frequently express the opinion that if she ever lost her mudhooks in her present state she would drift right down...
...half months' Passaic textile strike, his attempts at settlement were few and futile. But there is not a single major strike now going on in the U. S.-the coal, railroad, Manhattan garment and Passaic strikes have all been settled in various ways. Who can say whether a Secretary of Labor with his fingers in every strike would be as happy today as Mr. Davis...
...There are," he says to begin with, "nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction--some say twenty-two. In 'Deerslayer' Cooper violated eighteen of them." Or again, "A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable...