Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...swiftly moving plot"--thus does the publicity writer characterize Miss Hartley's novel. He shows in his choice of words a restraint quite unnatural to publicity writers. We finished the volume some hours ago, but it is no exaggeration to say that it has taken us since then to arrive, after a breathless pursuit of Anne through her illogical adventures, at the point at which the authoress leaves...
...jealously-guarded arena of "big games," and the Kentucky eleven intends to make the most of it. Both team and rooters will be fighting their hardest every moment that they are on the field; and though we cannot cheer in the stands with them, we can at least say that it is an honor to cheer in the stands against them...
...think I may say to you in all modesty that the candidates of the Republican party, with which you are affiliated, are sincerely actuated by a desire to render the best service of which they are capable to all of the people of this land of ours and that they are honestly committed to the principles and program of the party as enunciated in convention and established in the most successful years of the Republic...
...remedy would not seem unattainable. Though platforms and politics may not have a place in class politics, it should be possible to effect some arrangement whereby the candidates could impress their personality, which is to say their claim to office, on the electorate. Be this by speeches at smokers, printed articles, or some other method, the plan deserves consideration...
...Boston is six cents. Of course it must be remembered that the ham sandwich must bear its share of wages, rent, waste, and other overhead expenses. Yet it does not seem a satisfactory answer to his charges of profits as high as three and four hundred per cent, to say the cost of the sandwich has gone up two or three hundred per cent since 1914. The charge is made with full consideration of today's price level. The answer is beside the point. The restaurant owners, when asked what percentage they are making, reply that they do not know...