Word: enjoys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasure to send you renewal of my subscription by this mail. When I neglect some duty to slip off to a quiet place with TIME each week I feel like a small boy with the oldtime "Penny Dreadful" and enjoy it just as much. Incidentally I "keep posted...
...caught up and bandied by correspondents (see above). ¶ General Pai said to newsgatherers: "The Nationalist movement is committed to absolute religious freedom; and is particularly favorable to the American Y. M. C. A. which is helping Chinese youth educationally, morally and physically. . . . Under our regime all classes will enjoy civil equality, the rights of labor unions being especially safeguarded...
Upon no subject is the American Mercury better fitted or more logically inclined to inveigh than upon U. S. journalism. It depends for much of its copy upon newsgatherers and editors facile enough to catch the style, and cynical enough to enjoy the viewpoint, of Editor Henry Louis Mencken. Six of its 14 non-fiction articles for April were by newspaper men and women. Few months go by without Editor Mencken's discovering some fresh way to reprove the profession in which he got his start and training and of which he has been what he likes to call...
...educational advantage is made to seem ridiculous by juxtaposing its mental fumbles with the studied brilliance of sophisticates. The success of the magazine to date has been one of circulation. Now it is going to try to make money. It will seek to demonstrate to manufacturers that people who enjoy jibes at Fundamentalists, machine politics, President Coolidge and the foes of contraception, are discriminating buyers of pianos, automobiles, perfume and fine plumbing. And in a recent pamphlet designed to attract advertisers to the American Mercury, Mr. Mencken has had his shrewdest and cruelest fling of all at journalism: "The American...
...districts, were declared unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court last week. Refusing to take stock in the contention that conditions have changed, Chief Justice William Howard Taft simply pointed to a Supreme Court opinion of 1917 which declared that a Louisville (Ky.) ordinance invaded "the right to acquire, enjoy and use property which is guaranteed in equal measure to all citizens, white or colored, by the 14th Amendment...