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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy TIME. I read every word, including the illuminating footnotes. It takes about two hours and I am not a moron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...once a word that lubricated the jaws of the nation. Newspapers screamed it, preachers damned it, Mr. Average Citizen swallowed it and was shocked. That was back in 1923 when the Senate was airing the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandals of the Harding Administration. Soon the tumult died, the people forgot, and the wheels of justice began to churn ponderously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Teapot Dome | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...simple spell, the rite not for the word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MUSE AMUSES | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

...world like a mistake. He doped Boston College to be beaten. Imagine! And now for the first time he, or rather I, because I'll get all mixed up if I try to go on in the third person, now I will tell you how it happened. In a word, "Cherchez la femme." Yes, Joe Forecast, Flint-Hearted Joe as they used to call me in the old days, fell before a woman's wiles. I need not tell my readers how the Forecast heart beat quicker and the Forecast pulse raced faster. Suffice to say, I was in love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW JOE MADE THE LITTLE WOMAN UNHAPPY AND WHY | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

United States Senator W. M. Butler of Massachusetts received word from Washington yesterday that his request for the establishment of a branch of the Boston postoffice to be located in the midst of the new Business School dormitories has been approved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/8/1926 | See Source »

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