Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Teaching Mrs. Coolidge to swim doesn't mean a thing to me. I'm not all athrill when I lift her head or direct her hands. She is to me like every other student...
...usual to assume that Signor Mussolini's volte face from Socialism was a sudden thing; but this is erroneous. In the autumn of 1914, he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, in which he advocated participation in the War on the side of the Allies, whereas he had been against intervention. The Socialists expelled him from the Party, but Mussolini remained a Socialist at heart, his revolutionary spirit unchecked...
...seem fairly good. Which may make her a good actress or may prove that routine picture plots are better than they seem. This one certainly seems sloppy enough. It is all about an unloved wife and a Hungarian count. If you have enjoyed Irene Rich doing this sort of thing before, there is probably no reason for warning...
...short-sighted man, this desired inclination toward what is commonly called "world peace" may seem a thing, like the tropism of green twigs toward sunlight, so natural and to-be-expected as to render its discussion and "promotion" rather vapid solemnities...
They would not let Gutzon Borglum finish his Confederate Memorial in bas relief on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The committee in charge quarreled with him or he quarreled with them-it all came to the same thing-but he broke up his clay models and fled and they hired a new sculptor-a not un-Benvenuto Cellinesque affair (TIME, Mar. 9, 16, Apr. 27, May 11). But Mr. Borglum is to have another charge...