The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 147Atlantic Monthly Company, 1931 - American essays |
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Page 147
... talking pictures than that of the stage . In my opinion the value of the talk- ing screen in the improvement of the diction of the masses cannot be over- estimated . Not that the masses would go to the movies to learn how to speak ; but ...
... talking pictures than that of the stage . In my opinion the value of the talk- ing screen in the improvement of the diction of the masses cannot be over- estimated . Not that the masses would go to the movies to learn how to speak ; but ...
Page 219
... talk for a very short while with this Englishman who was willing to be friendly , appre- ciated any little service , and would be grateful to the Medical Corps for having saved his life . How boldly this captain must have lived , and ...
... talk for a very short while with this Englishman who was willing to be friendly , appre- ciated any little service , and would be grateful to the Medical Corps for having saved his life . How boldly this captain must have lived , and ...
Page 606
... talk . He had no philosophic out- look , and his religion , where it was not perfunctory , was national . Like By- ron , ' when he thinks he is a child . ' His ideas were personal and concrete . He disliked priests and gentility . He ...
... talk . He had no philosophic out- look , and his religion , where it was not perfunctory , was national . Like By- ron , ' when he thinks he is a child . ' His ideas were personal and concrete . He disliked priests and gentility . He ...
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