Word: adding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellent reason that I like to buy it down town and read it on my way home from business. I resent your advertisement on p. 36 of the Nov. 1 issue, in which you offer for sale to the highest bidder several original cover drawings of TIME, but add, "nonsubscribers need not apply." Why this discrimination...
LITTLE SHIPS-Kathleen Norris- Doubleday, Page ($2.00). Said Rupert Hughes of Kathleen Norris: "She lives life, reads people and writes books." He might well have added that she eats a hearty breakfast, loves children and dresses stylishly. So many magazine writers do the same. There is little or nothing to distinguish one from another, and the differences among their respective works are equally invisible. Yet somehow the great public discriminates, and the reception Mother got in 1911 marked Mrs. Norris as one of our elect. To her ability as a straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend...
...Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic, though I hasten to add that this was the effect of my wife's curiosity...
...weeks ago U. S. Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York wrote a letter to his friends. He invited them to subscribe to stock in a new corporation in which he is interested. Said he in the letter: "Naturally it will add to my happiness if my friends are stockholders. That will make it a family party." But one of these letters was presented by a stock salesman to a man who had never met the Senator. He resented the letter, especially because it was written on the stationery of the U. S. Senate...
...Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...