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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copies to friends boosting your circulation for their sake not yours. Only criticism - too few photographs. G. E. RUSSELL Advertising Manager Oilman Fanfold Corp., Ltd. Niagara Falls, N. Y. TIME averages 24 pictures per week in 40 to 44 text pages (including Letters). Do subscribers agree with Subscriber Russell, want more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Number One? [looking at Mr. Baldwin] Yes, he's here. He is in great danger. They want to know if he is carrying a gun ? they say it is the most astounding case the Yard has ever had and had to call me in to help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Princesses with Daggers | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...advertisements used to show marked by unspeakable passions, by furrows and pouches suggesting unmentionable artistic orgies. Sherwood Anderson has become a plump, benign, grey-haired citizen, radiating goodwill. Unlike Sinclair Lewis, baiter of smalltownsmen, Sherwood Anderson has said: "I like people just as they are. I do not want to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hobo Gone Babbitt | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...that just what it needs--more pep! Not much doing in Mem Hall these days, and it has a tendency to get behind the times and collect dust. It needs to hear a little informal singing, not just symphony concerts, but the sort of thing that will want to make those old portraits speak up and call each other by their first names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

...suggests that she say a little prayer whenever she feels she is going to lie. Then he turns to the other side of the confessional, hesitates, says three "Our Fathers" and three "Hail Marys," and growls to the drunk: "Step lively there; this is King and Yonge. Do you want to go past your stop?" The drunk lumbers off. The priest looks forward to a sleepless night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Callaghan of Canada | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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