Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, these three debtors began to show signs of awakening, began to make motions indicating that they were about to get out of bed and reach for their pocketbooks-or at least write out promises to pay on given dates...
...captain. Four years later, he transferred to the Army, joined the 19th Hussars. He rose steadily to the rank of a colonel, retired at the age of 41, an officer without distinction. He was fished out of the half-pay pool by General Sir George Luck to write a cavalry book, which was subsequently called "a masterpiece of lucid explanation and terse precision." His literary ability had undoubtedly saved him from obscurity and earned for him the half true sobriquet of "the luckiest man in the Army." Later events proved the Army to be the luckier...
...request is that you add another department to your remarkable weekly in the form of a question and answer column. Students ami others puzzled over some question would write TIME for information on the subject. For instance, we read daily of the Fascist! and Mussolini in Italy, but a great deal of it is utterly incomprehensible to me because I do not know what Fascism means or stands for, how and when it originated, etc. Kindly give me some information regarding this movement in your next issue, if possible, and oblige...
TIME Knoxville, Tenn. New York, N. Y. May 19, 1925. Gentlemen: Just a little personal note which I have resolved each week since June, 1923-, to write but, because, perhaps having the "Legal mind," I have procrastinated. Not an original subscriber to TIME, in fact no subscriber at all, but was "original purchaser" in this city, having been sold the first issue ever received on the newsstands by D. Beiler and out of gratitude to him for his urgent suggestion, I have continued to purchase my TIME through him and he will tell you that 1 have never missed...
...FAIR-Michael Arlen-Doran. ($2.50). Now Dikran Kuyunijiao has written another book, which is the last that he will write about these charming people, they do say. He has a pretty way with words, this Michael, or this Dikran. If it is the same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because he stands, as they did, in defense of gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world...