Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this sort of item which I most often have to "censor" out of TIME. Take, for example, your item about how the Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue...
...marriage. This is a serious problem in English Jewry. The Jew here, perhaps more than any other country in the world, is accepted on his own merits. This is especially true among the better classes, where, unlike America, there is no social prejudice, and no social barriers of any sort as between Jews and non-Jews. "The solution lies in the strengthening of Jewish consciousness and of Jewish convictions. When you consider for how many years the wealthier Jews in this country have been living together with non-Jews on more intimate terms than you can possibly imagine in America...
Letters containing threats made it seem wise last year to send a detective about at the heels of John Coolidge, Amherst student. Letters of this sort have kept on coming...
...whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort of thing that 'is not done'. It would be sensational, spectacular, emotional. The Republicans like to think of them selves as a little too orderly to do that sort of thing...
...sort of poetic justice Premier Tanaka is himself the son of a poor servant woman who had not even the rank of "honorable concubine" in the household of the onetime feudal lord, Mori. The servant's child displayed such unmistakable quickness and power in mind and body that Lord Mori secured him an appointment to the Military School. Thence he ran through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, Lieutenant General Tanaka was Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...