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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all due regard to editors & their right to interpret Webster in various ways; I cannot see how anyone-if they read Scarlet Sister Mary-could by any chance call Scarlet Sister Mary a prostitute...
Another Londoner who excites his fellow townsmen is Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Born by the Hudson, he has done most of his controversial carving beside the Thames (TIME, June 1, 1925). Sculptor Epstein's recent London exhibition of drawings also included many an explicit nude. Englishmen came, saw, said various things, but there was no official interference...
...Kellogg Treaty concludes with the seemingly harmless statement that it is signed by the rulers of the various nations "in the name of their respective peoples." Though Japan is a constitutional monarchy, yearly growing more democratic, nowhere are royal prerogatives more jealously guarded. According to the Japanese Constitution the Emperor, Son of Heaven, does not sign treaties "in the name of his people" for that would mean that it was the people who were making the treaty, the Emperor who was their agent. Japanese Prime Ministers sign "in the name of" the people. Japan's Emperor signs "for the good...
Explanation of the discrepancy lay in the fact that the legacies, bound up for the present in a $50,000 trust fund, cannot be collected until the year 2129, when they will go to various Indianapolis art, musical and educational institutions. By that time the laws of compound interest will, unless higher laws intervene, have operated to create the $160,000,000 figure...
...also written many an article for aeronautical publications. No stranger in the offices of the magazine he is to edit, Professor-Secretary-Editor Warner helped to prepare some of Aviation's first early issues in 1916, has since con tributed to it not a few learned treatises on various phases of aircraft manufacture and development...