Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course I am unable to say, which "one" of a dozen or more the Senator "saw," but everyone of them could no doubt hit the ground with his hat and therefore be unable to qualify. And along with the Senator, they all wore their hats large in those days...
...great mystery" captioned "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency" and, like so many "autobiographies" appearing in the popular magazines, that it was okayed by the subject. I am not criticising Mr. Coolidge. What he did was ethical. If Mr. Long comes to me with the same proposal I shall say, Go to it. But I am wondering if my fellow Vermonter isn't feeling that Editor Long is being over glorified when TIME gives such space to the mystery. Perhaps Mr. Coolidge's New England conscience is being (unduly) pricked, and that he wishes TIME hadn...
...Burlington, Vt. Wintering at Phoenix, Ariz. Vermonter Lane's query about the "meaningless fragments" can never be answered. Now that the "mystery" is dispelled, not even the Cuneo Press typesetters could honestly say how little or much sense or sensation they derived from setting the disjointed Coolidge paragraphs. Editor Long exaggerated, perhaps, when he suggested that the typesetters were entirely ignorant of what the fragments were all about. Vermonter Lane's questioning of Editor Long's editorial integrity is more grave. In the interests of accuracy, definiteness and fairplay, TIME has showed Vermonter Lane's letter...
This is no place to go into the merits and demerits of the ideas placed in the mouths of the various characters. Suffice it to say they are well thought out, at times illuminating and for the first two acts gaily and wittily put forth. This problem of youthful ideals, post-marital disappointment and the attendant question of infidelity makes interesting plays and when handled as the present author treats it makes a good evening's diversion...
...some, the advent of Miss Dorothy Gish to the legitimate stage is no doubt a great event. We would not go quite so far as to say that. But she does give what is on the whole a good performance. The blot on her scutcheon is that in spite of her acting she gives the impression of being about eight years older than the score the play calls...