Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing I still dislike about TIME is your attitude towards Bernarr Macfadden. I know that his physical culture ideas have done much good in countless cases. They are essentially sound. What if he does make money from such magazines as True Stories, True Romances, etc. ? Why attack his doctrines of physical fitness on that account? You will say: Because he is intolerant of materia medico, and bacteriology. After all he could not be more intolerant of these than is Morris Fishbein of everything outside the province of the M. D. And yet you continually glorify Fishbein...
...settlement had it not been that they feared the disapproval of the legislative bodies of their respective countries. It is evident, Mr. Piez, that you do not know Mr. Mellon. I venture to say that Mr. Mellon would never be embarrassed in doing what he thought was the wise thing simply because somebody else might disapprove it. If he thought he was doing the right thing and the wise thing, he would do it and let responsibility for rejecting it be upon those who might...
...advertisement of about half a page offering for sale small farms, subdivisions of a great ranch. Strangely enough, adjoining this advertisement on the same page was an extensive news article describing the same thing and headed: "Realization of Trail-breaker's Dream Makes Possible Owning of Homes by Men Poor but Thrifty...
...that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...
...succeeded to popularity, if not to their places. It is quite likely that society has suffered from this. But who will say that it is the worse for having outgrown the sentimentality of the Victorians? For outside of Herold Bell Wright and the moving-pictures, Wertherism is almost a thing of the past...