Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remark [TIME, Aug. 30, p. 8] that Judge Clarke, running antiWorld Court for the United States Senate in California, was once pro-World Court. You fail to observe that Mr. Shortridge, running pro- international against Judge Clarke, got to Washington by promising to the anti-international one hundred per cent. Each man is a convert. The real question...
Concerning names-in-a-million, TIME of Aug. 30 is clearly right. Mr. Planalp, Mr. Staats, Mary Byram, Otto Baab, Otto Egge and others have proven that "there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome." Therefore some else must claim the name-in-a-million...
Your reference to the taste of human flesh (TiME, Aug. 23) prompts me to suppose that you may be interested in certain little known facts about human gastronomy which have come to my notice while preparing a monograph upon cannibalism...
...international episode of Sacco and Vanzetti (TIME, Aug. 9) began its run. In Paris and Mexico City, in Italy and South America, thousands clamored that a Red-fearing U. S. had blindfolded the goddess of Justice to get rid of two Italians. Bombs were tossed at U. S. embassies with a casual malice. One autumn day in Paris in 1921, Ambassador Herrick's valet opened the morning's mail. "Bang!" went a nefarious machine. He was wounded. Many a man- Remain Rolland, Fritz Kreisler, Professor Einstein, Count von Bernstorff, H. L. Mencken, Eugene V. Debs-demanded...
Prince Chichibu, though he turned the compliment deftly, may well have felt a smouldering pride at the thought that no personage of the blood imperial is known to have equaled his achievement in scaling nine of the principal mountains of Europe.* (TIME, Aug...