Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What a pity that you are unable to see anything good or able in Fess-the keynoter. You slurred, in life, Senator Willis and now you turn loose on his friend and former teacher. If you knew Senator Fess as I have known him from boyhood, you could not belittle yourself by using the language concerning him which appears in your issue of April 16. Were this 1860, your small-bore magazine would see nothing in Lincoln worthy of commendation. He would be to TIME, a tall, bony, gaunt, ugly, poor-little-town-minded politician. This and nothing more-judging...
...increasing prospect of any man's nomination distorts his image in the public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world...
...purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer for M. Knoedler & Co., who in turn were probably buying for Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness...
...film is also well adapted to the revue. One is thankful that he can turn to the refreshing scenery of the Ozarks after the dazzling artificiality of the stage programme. Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because it reveals the heart of the Arkansas-Missouri Ozarks in all their beauty, picturesqueness, and wildness. In a glorious setting we have a typical elemental drama of emotion among the Arkansas mountain folk. Feuds, stills, stark love, stark hate, stark death, are all mixed in best First National style. The conglomeration...
Looking for the American counterparts of Oxford and Cambridge, persons in the East unquestionably think of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. In the three types of men they turn out there are exceedingly interesting contrasts which any outside observer must have noted...