Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Among the letters in TIME, Aug. 21 was one from my cousin, Charles A. Storms, on the subject of cancer patients. You may be interested to learn that he died on August...
...Every evening Britain recalled Sir Edward Grey's epic lament about the lamps going out all over Europe, never again to be relit in his time. The late August moon rode alone over a darkened city whose street intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through...
...Usually somnolent in August, London surged and churned with conflicting streams of humanity: urbanites leaving for the country, vacationers coming back, foreigners seeking refuge or trying to leave for home (see p. 40). All Germans were ordered out by their Embassy. But life went on unchanged for lots of people. Dancer Tilly Losch proceeded with her design to marry young Lord Carnarvon. Promoters went ahead with a walkingstick show, were miffed when Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to let his umbrella be exhibited. But 19 walking sticks owned by Lady du Maurier were there, one containing a telescope, another a gold...
...last week Fair officials chortled. In the war between culture and sex, culture had finally won a victory and on no less a battlefield than Treasure Island. Figures for the first three weeks of August showed that the Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts had outgrossed Sally Rand...
These figures for 164 days of operation do not yet include the month of August (the Fair's,best so far) nor do they show that practically the entire operating profit was made in the last two months of the six accounted for. In 124 days (Aug. 1 to Dec. 2) to go the Fair has a good chance of breaking even...