Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Alice Foote MacDougall [on the LETTERS page of the Nov. 16 issue] expresses what to my mind is a defect in TIME-your style of English, "Came the President," "Sneezed the Senator" and all that sort of thing. It is grotesque, unattractive and as irritating as a sore thumb...
...Only Thing. When Elinor Glyn rolls up her sleeves and goes at one of those mythical kingdom stories, you can pretty well figure out what is going to happen. The hero is going to save the Princess from marrying the nasty old king. There is going to be a revolution and ultimate happiness. And so it is. Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel, plus the somehow inevitable fascination of this romantic pattern, make a pretty entertaining picture...
...realities of the affair lie in a realm of feeling of which the actors themselves were hardly aware, which the wisest doctor and the most discerning priest would need years to explore before they could half understand it. The attachment was a pitiable thing, the horrible confusion of a sexually uneducated boy and a socially uneducated girl with greed and social position and an uncertain racial standard and a kind of weird search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads...
...became Governor, and held that office through all the difficult days to follow until he resigned it, voluntarily, in 1783. It has been said that his administrations were so satisfactory that it became 'a rare thing to see a counting of votes.' Trumbull was so averse to anything that suggested personal advantage that he once sent a message asking for the repeal of a law, passed without his knowledge or desire, which bestowed the title of His Excellency on the Governor. He observed, among other things, that 'High sounding Titles intoxicate the mind, and 'It is Honor and Happiness enough...
...fact beyond all further question. Major Cavanaugh in his speech before the Debating Union asserted with great gusto and assurance that he had heard of no overemphasis of football at New Haven, that no hint of it had come from Princeton, and that any one who mentioned such a thing at Hanover would be shot at dawn. But it seems that the Major was a bit premature...