Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should ask me, I'd say the Follies type [TIME, Aug. 29] compared to other types of show girls is about the same as a show horse compared to a race horse. All a show horse does is stand around and get looked at. A race horse can do something. I've seen them all and I know. Once they get in the Follies you know they'll never be anything but glorified dumbbells. . . . Give me a girl that works for her living, every time, instead of one that works somebody by just being dead from...
Conservative papers in England, Germany, Scandinavia, hesitated to express opinions or advice on a case falling entirely within the province of U. S. jurisprudence. One German editor, however, welcomed the U. S. into the fellowship of European "humanity, justice and culture" for its supposed stand against the forces of Communism...
...Grand Exalted Ruler: "I am a native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...
...home at Mansfield, Conn., with a discharged shotgun in his hands. Within lay one Wilfred Peter Irwin, shot in the back, dying. Both men had been drinking for days. Before the guest died he swore his host was innocent, the shooting an accident. But Leonard Cline must stand trial for murder. Until the plot of that true story is unraveled next month before a grand jury, one of the most promising careers in U. S. literature is in abeyance. Factitious folk have tried, futilely, to draw conclusions from the identical first names of Mr. Cline's unfortunate guest...
...courtiers of Confucius, men with bitter yellow faces blackly stitched into acute angles, invented a game. They would stand, fantastically foppish in long sleeves and ivory silk, silent on the shiny green leather of China turf, each holding in his hand a great smooth ball of polished wood. It was a picture in suave bright colors infused with a slow and graceful motion. There would be a swish of light brilliance above the lawn, a brush of spinning wood on grass, a far-away microscopically delicate click as wood touched porcelain. The game was first to pitch balls into...