Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John MacNev's letter of protest against the misuse of "John"-"Johnnies to us"-(TIME, Jan. n, p. 9), may I add the plea of a respected and respectable maiden lady against the humiliating abuse of her name. Born in the good old days when the children of the family were called Charlie, Maisie, Frankie and Johnny, I was christened Frances but called Fanny. What has been my consternation and embarrassment to hear this name constantly misused, particularly at present by a noisy neighbor calling to her recalcitrant child, "Frederick H. Jr., come in at once or I shall...
...have been a subscriber since 1926 and on many occasions felt tempted to add my "two cents worth" of support. This is the first opportunity which proved irresistible and I hope it arrives before the deluge of criticism, but doubt if it stands a chance...
...happen, there is going to be law and order in Michigan. The public interest and the public safety are paramount. The public authority in Michigan is stronger than either of the parties in the present controversy. Neither of them by recourse to force or violence will be permitted to add public terror to the existing economic demoralization...
...through a "polarization" or tapering off course of gradually diminishing doses of insulin. Summed up Dr. Sakel: "The results do not depend upon the size of the dose of insulin, but rather on the proper termination at the right time of each shock. ... I should like to add that I used to think that only recent cases would show a satisfactory response to treatment. But later I realized that in some chronic cases-not in all-more or less improvement was possible, and it was well worth trying...
...Jacques, escape a deadly conventionality in acting which oppresses the majority of the cast. Jacques's superb rendition of the "All the World's a Stage" speech makes a dull-evening a happy one. But for the others a tremendous consciousness that they were acting Shakespeare seemed to add pounds to every word, gesture and expression. The feeling assailed one after the first few lines and remained rarely contradicted throughout...