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...wasn't father Nathan's fault. The editors are sensitive men, and know that sins of the children should not be visited upon the heads of the fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fame | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...company makes his cartoon figure not only comic but human, and helps carry through a farce which is only fairly good into a very pleasant evening. When the spinster motif is over-worked or the thin ice cracks it is plainly not the actor's but the author's fault. The audience was sprinkled with portions of the British Navy, who remarked truly and in accents worthy of Roland Young that it was a jolly good show; and if it is not so good as "The Ghost Train" it may run even longer. The unmarried ladies, as well...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

...game with Purdue I sat near a group of Harvard undergraduates accompanied by young women. One of the men carried a large square bottle which he planted ostentatiously between his feet. It was filled with courage and nepenthe and its owner was hospitable to a fault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...Finds no Fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: I am one subscriber who has no fault to find with TIME : your idiosyncrasies sometimes irritate my personal taste, as those of other people do; just as mine no doubt irritate theirs-life is like that, thank God ; the world would be a dusty place if all tastes were alike. De gustibus non disputandum. One of the most entertaining features of your magazine is the uproar of people who insist upon disputanding other people's gustibusses. I find delight in watching that weekly circus, even if you do sometimes allow too many encores, permitting obvious pinheads to overstay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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