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...When you get over your mad and want to be reinstated what provision is there to make that easy and painless to your pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Vague declarations that examinations should be composed with regard to some ephemeral standard of higher education seem to be the cries of those who dislike doing the work assigned them, rather than the constructive suggestions of those who see a means of initiating this painless exposure to learning. (Name withheld on request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Particular | 3/29/1928 | See Source »

...repetitious, childlike pomposity of this "edict" is not quite an accurate index of Wizard Evans' mental calibre, for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Unmasked | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...ankles of the medical profession. The sputter of novelty has been muted by time and by an increasing propensity on the part of the profession itself to admit how many, many things it cannot cure. But for those who still regard medicine as magic, it will be a painless purge. For those who still more reasonably revere as magic an agile comedy immaculately acted, it will be a blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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