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Writing in the current Atlantic Monthly, of this public attitude, Agnes Repplier correlates a surprising unanimity of conceit among Americans. Her authorities range from Dr. Frank Crane who advises Europeans to study American conduct since the war before continuing their wilful ways, to the late Walter Hines Page, who once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERIORITY COMPLEX | 5/13/1926 | See Source »

Owen Davis is the author and it is not one of his best plays. He tells the story of a wilful and penetrating widow in love with a handsome and promiscuous doctor. Her efforts through the evening are centred on breaking his engagements to two other women and securing him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 14, 1925 | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

Bookworm Newton Has Good Capacity, Good Digestion The epistle dedicatory of these essays is addressed to the founder of a little club of wilful men who came together fortnightly 40 years ago in Philadelphia to rub wits and read papers on the lives, times, works, and in the manner, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Undoubtedly there is much in this Report that is startling and possibly painful to orthodox believers in traditional cosmology; and yet it cannot be too often emphasized that the readjustment of some of the incidental tenets of our religion to meet the progress of modern science need not, and does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICANS IS RECOUNTED BY UNION ESSAYIST FROM VIEWPOINT OF SCIENTISTS IN FUTURE AGES | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

- Under Federal Statutes, no person may be prosecuted, tried or punished unless an indictment is found within a certain number of years of the alleged offense. This does not extend to any person fleeing from justice. Treason or other capital offense (wilful murder excepted) 3 years

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Law | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

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