Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have gone too far. Editorial stunts (and I speak from an experience of more than 35 years in active newspaper work) can be carried beyond what is pleasing. TIME'S new department of FASHIONS is just such an overstep. You know why without my going any further: the "formula...
...Canadians and Americans speak the same language, read the same books, think the same thoughts. Jointly they occupy the largest area of the earth's surface where a single language is spoken...
...Every feature of this event deepens its significance. The day, with its never-to-be-forgotten memories; the place, with its wealth of historic and solemn associations, . and, above all, our purpose to do honor to those who, though dead, yet speak...
...family of wanderers--some say of Hebraic origin, though this is open to much doubt. Indeed, the whole matter is so deeply shrouded in the dust of time, that no one, least of all the Vagabond himself, who was not present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that he comes from Shemokin...
...present and future; in the past we are dead, and the Vagabond has as yet no desire to wander into Appleton Chapel and become a tradition. It is to the present and future then that he will turn today. From his abode under the shadow, so to speak, of the founder's statue he will set forth not toward the massive Norman portal of Sever, or the Georgian chastity of Harvard but in a very different direction. For it is quite as it should be, that on ordinary days he should busy himself in plucking, as he remarked earlier...