Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Panorama says, in its masthead, that it is "founded on a belief in the United States of America, its flag and its institutions." But, also, Panorama admits a desire to emulate The Illustrated London News and similar European publications. It was difficult to discover what class of scatter-brained women Panorama was intended primarily to interest. The first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping...
...thoughts of each, tortuously analyzed, hark back to a frustration or forward with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter-brain scared to collect the money, they run away and finally trail along with a traveling carnival. Amelia, as ticket-collector in shabby velvet, attains a certain dreary happiness...
...letter in TIME with his own signature beneath it. When his letter is printed,-he will take his copy of TIME, frame it, and hang it in his front bay-window. Then he will go to all the newsdealers in the country and buy 8 gross of TIME and scatter them broadside among his friends and relations. He will even give one to each of his mother-in-laws. Ah! How great he will be. All the people who are so fortunate as to know him will look up to him as an author or a devil or something...
...society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees gloat upon a moral which is happily remote...
...182.Prospect of further conflict loomed when fiery Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi, "The Hewer of Communist Heads," declared at Peking, last week, that the Nationalist Armies will now extend their authority over Manchuria, while their enemies "scatter like dead leaves before the rising wind...