Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Come, come, TIME, don't hold out on us. Did or did not Publisher Boettiger read Westbrook Pegler's scoring of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger in his column Monday, Aug. 9 [TIME, Aug. 23! ? I'll bet you that orchid you wear that John Boettiger saw it and had "the courage not to care" whether Pegler's column appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. MURIEL SHANNON...
...nice to be glad-and we admit we try to be that-although the news doesn't always permit, but we just don't like to be called the "glad rag of the garment trade" [TIME, Aug. 23]. It does something or other to our dignity. How would you like to be called "the newsrag of time?" Wouldn't it do something or other to YOUR dignity...
Well might Edna St. Vincent Millay cry, "Oh, God, why write," if she chanced to scan TIME'S report under Science in its Aug. 30 issue. To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology, must have been, to say the least, distressing to America's premier candle-at-both-ends-burner...
Delighted to see my old friend, "Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland" in TIME (Aug. 30) , I would like to add a story about him which was told me several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown...
...Because the feast of St. Roch falls within the octave-eight-day observance-of the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin (Aug. 15), the two can be conveniently celebrated together...