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The book sparkles with quotable lines. Apropos of the statement that Irving Berlin can neither read nor write music, Dr. Collins observes: "Some who have heard his compositions will say 'I knew it!'" And then he adds: "Homer could neither read nor write and his poetry has stirred the hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

Apropos of the student poll about a suitable war memorial, I oppose the suggestion of having a new chapel, (since worship is irretrievably dissociated from Harvard) and also the suggestion of a monument, because such a memorial is at best a rather sterile and lifeless affair.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

ld be used on President Calles in securing protection of U.S. property rights in Mexico (see LATIN AMERICA) ; 3) that in his opinion the Senate had had plenty of time (three years) to make up its mind about the World Court and that action is now apropos; 4) that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 25, 1926 | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

Before an audience of Plymouth women, the Viscountess Astor fulminated against submarines in general. Apropos of the disaster said she: "I would go around the world lecturing five times over if I thought I could do anything to persuade the nations of the world to abandon submarines and poison gas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The M-1 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

The following Saturday these same sleepyheads heard a tune more familiar to their jaded ears, loudly but soulfully rendered on the amazing carillon. Apropos of a wedding in the church, Mendelssohn's famed march was, for the first time in the U. S., played upon bells.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carillon | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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