Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farther east you go the worse they get The only places I ever found either absent is where it is fairly breezy or pretty confounded dry. As for rattlers, they're where you find 'em. But why worry ? It's a rare thing to hear of anyone getting bit and rarer still to hear of the victim dying. Autos are far more deadly. You're a stickler for the truth, that's the why of this letter...
Sirs: . . . Would suggest that FOREIGN NEWS confine itself to less trivial items. Refer TIME, April 4, COMMONWEALTH. Largely the fact that Friend Peel opens a road house ia of no particular interest or influence to anybody; as a sign of changed times that the type of thing is already history...
...chose. Alas for the futility of human hopes and even interests as we suppose them te be! . . . As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized. We all know now that we can have too much of a good thing; that without foreign trade the nation's trade, aye, even the nation's life, languishes...
...Finally, the standard of good taste is not a negative thing, merely keeping us from wrong. It is a creative thing. That is why your generation is so fine, so much cleaner, healthier, more promising than my generation. For when a generation discovers that the old codes cannot be used and sets up for themselves high standards of their own they have much firmer ground on which to proceed...
...Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play's the Thing), E. G. Robinson (Brothers Karamazov, Juarez and Maximilian...