Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a suggestion to offer, trifling but helpful, I think. Why does not TIME, always precise, always timesaving, print the table of contents with the subjects arranged in alphabetical order...
Trixie Friganza celebrates her 40th year of fun-making this autumn. She hopes to round out a half-century before retiring. Not sad to her is the thought of what a volatile young thing she used to be. Still volatile, she refuses to think backwards, even to the bird-and-bottle parties at Delmonico's which were lavished upon chorus girls in the age of gallantry. To old codgers in club windows she leaves the memory of how she first starred in Pearl of Peking (1889). Her business is "the laugh business," which she studies seriously. Her last success...
...before entering. In the room were many clues. The detectives took fingerprints, found that the assailant had changed from his own blood-spattered clothes to Mr. Eaton's, had left behind a razor and a block of wood. Although $4,000 had been stolen Scotland Yard did not think robbery was the sole motive. It was announced that two men were being trailed for "causing grievous bodily injuries." One J. Moore, 22, surrendered himself and was charged with deserting the Army, held for further questioning. The other, Roland Bateman, 22, also a suspected deserter, was more elusive. Detectives...
...William ("Billy") Sunday, silent, these many months, screamed at a Pitman, N. J. camp meeting: "The Church has got its back to the wall! They're building nine theatres to one Church. All people think of is entertainment-movies and the like. They offered me $1,000,000 to go into the movies, but I turned it down. I can do more good speaking to the people face to face...
Thirty years ago Detroit was a far-seeing city. Horses still clop-clopped over its pavements but people were talking about steam and electric transportation. Those who were foolish enough to think of gasoline got what they deserved. They had faith in the ex-superintendent of the Detroit Edison Company, who promised to build ten cars for $10,000. He spent $86,000 of their money and they thought they were lucky to get him to resign. The urchins were right when they chased the gas buggies through the streets and shouted, "Hire a horse...