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"You need not be concern'd, in writing to me, about your bad Spelling; for, in my Opinion as our Alphabet now Stands, the bad Spelling, or what is call'd so, is generally the best, as conforming to the Sound of the Letters and of the Words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

"I think that of all the pictures I've worked in, I preferred 'Gabriel Over The White House,' the veteran actor said. "But just like so many other Hollywood productions this was produced to fit the times. Although it was very interesting and a propos at the time, it could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Huston Condemns Hollywood's Long Hours, Easy Money for Actors | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

Every feeling of expediency and decency impels me to answer briefly the anonymous letter in Monday's CRIMSON a propos of the manners of one or two of the theologues in a certain fascinating course, since this letter is a mass of impudent misstatement from one end to the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Here Endeth the Lesson | 11/14/1931 | See Source »

A propos Senator Ferris' death, the Senate's medical member, flowery Copeland of New York, commented on the fact that 34 Senators have died "in harness" within the past dozen years. "Probably every one of them had his life shortened by the frightful conditions of the chamber. One only needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Michigan Seat | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

¶ Another statement on Presidential jack-knives was found necessary and W. E. Fulton of Newark, Ohio, whose present to the President of a pearl-handled whittling instrument was accepted and acknowledged (TIME, Dec. 19), can feel justly proud. Last week President Coolidge received so many jack-knives from other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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