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So far this year the cheering in the Union has been unconvincing. One hesitates to fix the blame for this state of affairs, but the fact remains that last Saturday afternoon the Living Room was so quiet that a pin could be hear to drop, and this on the day...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

The Socialist platform you call unconvincing. Do you mean that the other platforms are more so than the Socialist--when in the next sentence you admit a "baffling indistinction" between the major parties? In the program of the Socialist Party, there is explained an objective and material attitude, which recommends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater Significance | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

Untermeyer's interpretation is shrewd, and his language masterly; but unconvincing his modernized conversation in the mouths of prince and prophet.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revised Editions | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Stockmarketeers found a suddenly strong market, hazarded various and unconvincing explanations, decided not to look the gift horse in the mouth. For the first time since June, a single day's trading passed the 4,000,000-share mark. The ticker once again fell behind, a full 25 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stockmarket | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

The work of Irving Babbitt and Paul More is pessimism for the present and preparation for the future, an establishment of inclusive standards at na time when national literature has run aground in the twin streams of unapplied realism, and unrelated, subjective aestheticism. Agreeing with these critics, Mr. Munson still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Contemporaries. | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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