Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker was William Zebulon Foster, famed U. S. Communist. He was speaking in Manhattan, where some 250 delegates to the Workers (Communist) party convention were about to nominate Comrade Foster for President of the U. S. His speech constituted a sort of premature acceptance oration...
...Widener collection of illustrated books of this sort, especially of the work of Cruikshank, is one of the most complete and most valuable in the world. Some of the best items of this collection are now on view in the Widener Memorial Room...
Inquiry of college presidents, deans of men, heads of schools of journalism, and students active in publications, reveals that this sort of thing is, fortunately, not very common in American colleges. Only in a few cases that have come to my attention do college authorities indicate that they approve of censorship in any form. On the other hand, almost without exception they appear to believe that student editors should be given complete authority, but authority accompanied by the complete responsibility that must accompany lawful authority in every activity of life...
...Ladies," Mrs. Abbott has refused to mix black or even brown among the paints on her palette. The six short stories which make up the volume are woven of the golden mist of day dreams, and the silken threads of a playful imagination. The characters are frankly of the sort that never were on land nor sea but only in the mind of one who is willing at least occasionally to think of how pleasant things might...
...Broun had done every sort of writing for the World except giving advice to the lovelorn. He had been reporter, book reviewer, theatre critic (before he developed a phobia for the theatre), sports writer, columnist. His whims had upset the World routine; but his stuff had a following. Last August, he came to a stalemate with Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the World because he insisted on writing very, very pinkish words on the Sacco-Vanzetti case (TIME, Aug. 22). It was not until late in December that Mr. Broun's column again appeared in the World. Meanwhile, he took...