Word: ami
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ami-tidy machines wrap up the cakes of this cleanser, like a chicken pecking at snails- profits...
...Ami. For 40 years the chick on the brownish wrapper of a cake of Bon Ami (cleanser, polisher) has not scratched. Nor has it cheeped about profits. William Hamlin Childs started his Bon Ami Co. in 1886. He is chairman...
...Briand's luggage, as he departed from London after signing the Locarno Treaties (see INTERNATIONAL), nestled a silver loving cup, the gift of Sir Austen Chamberlain. Engraved upon it were the words, A mon ami, Aristide Briand. Souvenir de Locarno. With a sigh, M. Briand quitted the scene of his greatest triumph; rushed home to Paris where his newly formed Government (TIME, Dec. 7) has none too many friends. Within a few short hours he was engaged in fighting what he himself described as the most desperate battle of his political career...
...request is that you add another department to your remarkable weekly in the form of a question and answer column. Students ami others puzzled over some question would write TIME for information on the subject. For instance, we read daily of the Fascist! and Mussolini in Italy, but a great deal of it is utterly incomprehensible to me because I do not know what Fascism means or stands for, how and when it originated, etc. Kindly give me some information regarding this movement in your next issue, if possible, and oblige...
...baton at the orchestra. Unrivaled is the popularity of the Philadelphia Orchestra this year; unapproached the position of Conductor Stokowski. Novelty of this concert was the playing, for the first time in the U. S., of a violin concerto by Karol von Szymanowski which the composer dedicated to "mon ami," Violinist Paul Kochanski. Ami Kochanski was there himself, chin on instrument, to play the solo part...