Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round rosy cheeks and thin grey hair entered for the first time an unpretentious office in a temporary building on Washing ton's Mall and there seated himself in one of the most thankless swivel chairs in the Government. The little man was Frank Xavier Alexander Eble, called "Alphabet" by his friend because of his four initials. The chair was that of the Commissioner of Customs to which he had just been appointed by President Hoover. The first day in office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made on the Customs Bureau's chief problem...
...likes to eat (string beans, chocolate ice cream) and drink (milk). About her other likes and dislikes she is less reticent. Yellow is her favorite color (see cover). Telephone books are her pet aversion. It is hard for her to find numbers because she does not know her alphabet very well. She was taught to sing...
Author Crosby's social thesis is a protest against the urbanizing of Morrisville. Milkman Lovering is his spokesman about the beat of the hammers building new subdivisions, changing the plan of Morrisville from an H to a symbol from some oppressive foreign alphabet. Milkman Lovering gets supplanted by the milk trust. A department store replaces Mrs. Barkenteens, where Skippy bought the "chawklets." Mr. Prince, a city man, gives Skippy's ball team uniforms-emblazoned to advertise real estate...
...billboards all posters are printed in the Hebrew alphabet...
Lately, brusque, kinetic Mustafha Kemal, President of the Republic of Turkey, glanced, too, at the tablets. Elsewhere in Turkey, by Presidential decree (TIME, Sept. 17), the Arabic script had been supplanted suddenly by the Latin alphabet, and President Kemal ordered that the Holy Inscriptions, like any others, must be spelled out in Latin characters...