Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I question if either cocksureness or ignorance is properly a substitute for ordinary honesty in a review. TIME'S sense of fairness is evidently not wide enough to care that Robert Ingersoll was an agnostic and Thomas Paine a deist, neither of them an atheist. The usual decencies of intelligent controversy do not necessitate that a man be mealymouthed, either in the statement of his own views, or in his attack upon the views of his adversary, but they do at least prohibit misstatements of fact. It may be, to be sure, that TIME quoted Mr. Cameron Rogers...
...poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered by our regular artists have been growing stereotyped and dull...
Grimy Manchester reported: "The sun was eclipsed here as usual...
...Paris, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize* (TIME, Dec. 20), handed the proposal, which he had personally drafted to the U. S. Ambassador. In the usual course of events Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick would simply have sent this communication on through ordinary channels to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. He did not do so. Instead, Mr. Herrick made a gesture worthy of France and the U. S. He ordered his bags packed, took the so vital document into his personal care, and embarked on the maiden voyage of the just completed flagship...
Ritzy (Betty Bronson). Elinor Glyn, with whom the public mind associates The Philosophy of Love and the theory of IT,† here takes hold of an unusually refreshing bit of froth, only to flatten it with her usual pomposity. The heroine, a little Miss Main Street, is infatuated with the-idea of marrying a duke. Only after she has been taught the error of her snobbish ways and given an opportunity to register truly philosophic passion under half-closed eyelids, does she discover that her fiancé, Mr. Smith, is in reality the Duke of Westborough. Thereupon, morality...