Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertising per issue with which the magazine was launched had shrunk to four. Tactful requests that Editor Frankau modify his Lunatic-Fascist policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...
...foot the bill and stay sober, is a pretty homeric tale. If (in the manner of Time's advertisements) you are curious to know who shouted 'Oysthersh' from under the table at frequent intervals, or who were the young bloods who voted Democratic because it seemed the sporting thing to do, we refer you to the leading article in the issue under discussion...
...interview Painter Max was asked to state the secret of his success. Replied he with a twinkle: "Thrashings. In my youth my father thrashed me and later the critics. The best thing that ever happened to me was that I got so many hidings. Art must be the expression of personal experience...
Evangelist W. F. Fisher, who staged the mock funeral, has made a specialty of this sort of thing. Once he saved 50 in one night. At Waterbury only six were saved...
...screen star, in Hollywood, to her divorced husband, Jaime, ill in Berlin, did not particularly impress a U. S. public accustomed to accept the quasi-private quarrels and love-making of picture people with the same scepticism usually roused by their screen depictions of the same kind of thing...