Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worthy Don Rafael who beamingly despatched to newspapers what he said was a true and authoritative translation of a cable just received from Dictator Primo de Rivera himself. Text...
...chief joy would appear--from a casual reading--to be vivid portrayal of dirt, squalor, sensuality and the psychology of the diseased and stunted mind. Instead he takes on something of the aspect of a religious teacher, not a theologian not a didacticism, but one who used as his text the Gospel story of the raising of Lazarus. He becomes rather the man who, having passed through a life of suffering and deprivation and a decade of hell in the Siberian katorga, returned without losing faith in humanity and with boundless pity for the insulted and injured. A man like...
...text of the secret naval agreement between Great Britain and France (TIME, Aug. 13) was partially exposed and its principles were vigorously denounced, last week, in a point blank note from the U. S. State Department to the British Foreign Office...
...digressed completely, to flay the many critics of the new, secret Anglo-French military-naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13). Everyone now knows that the existence of the agreement was revealed through an incredibly stupid British blunder; and a further piece of British folly has been to keep the text dark after the fact of its existence leaked. Passion tinged the rich tones of Briand's voice as he cried: "France and Great Britain have been working together for the peace of the world, and have been singularly unfortunate...
...Hearst newspapers. Advertisers are invited to regard it as a sort of magazine. It has a circulation of 25,000,000 (Saturday Evening Post has less than 3,000,000). Its advertising rate is $16,000 per page. Its contents are entirely lurid: huge pictures and meaningless text about the scandals of Europe's lesser nobility, dinosaurs, spooks, freaks of science, etc. Eleven years ago, Publisher Hearst, despairing of selling advertising in such a thing, offered to give one Albert J. Kobler a big commission for every advertisement sold. From this commission, Salesman Kobler soon derived a five...