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...thoughtful legislator-and not just for personal political reasons. With a branch of the U.S. Government under attack, it is high time for Congressmen to brace up - not to save their own hides but to preserve the principle of democratic legislation One such worried Congressman is 40-year-old Aimer Stillwell Mike Monroney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: We Are All Guilty | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

Nothing Like It. "I know not how it is," Byron was soon writing from Venice, "my health growing better, and my spirits not worse, the 'besoin d'aimer' came back upon my heart . . . and, after all, there is nothing like it." This time the besoin d'aimer took the form of Marianna Segati, wife of Byron's landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Dark Tower | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...searchlights were blinding and we were flying entirely on the bomb aimer's instructions. I had my head down inside the cockpit trying to see the instruments, but the glare made even that difficult. Our instructions were not to rush it too much, because of the need for extreme accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Tales of Heroism | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Fort Worth, Tex., one W. D. May, mail robber and murderer, marched out of his death cell. Beside him, Rev. Aimer Kelly intoned Biblical texts. At the prison washhouse, the procession stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1934 | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

MAUD. How strange! "amour, aimer, aimons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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