Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 I joined in the crowds with a safety-razor-blade and destroyed at least two dozen heads of hair, fortunately avoiding arrest although I was almost caught once. Several years later I was an entire Jack-the-Snipper epidemic in Dallas, all by myself, and was in a fair way to go all to pieces when I found the true explanation. At once my weird longings came under control. My hair-fetichism...
...Cross "lost" in wild Australia. The flyers, who guided the Southern Cross across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were aboard, did not consult the weather bureau regarding weather conditions, did not carry suitable tools, and did not make adjustments for changing...
Bishop Cannon's first Kable & Co. venture was an investment of $2,500 in August 1927. His judgment in general was proved sound although at one time he owed the firm $91,000. His best day was April 10, 1928, when he sold $75,078 worth of stock, purchased $58,353. In more than 30 transactions, he was a loser only six times...
...Although parochial schools are prohibited, ministers may teach their doctrines to children and grown-ups "within the church confines...
...108th Bishop of London, the Rt. Hon., Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, had every reason to be well pleased last week. In Town was a 23-year-old friend of his, Helen Newington Wills, that tennis girl from California. Although she is perhaps the world's best amateur woman player and although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another...