Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actor Boyer is bald halfway back on top. He wears a toupee (hairpiece or divot in Hollywood) for cinema and most public appearances...
Your come-back to A. C. Whitaker's letter (TIME, Dec. 4) "Saliva is saliva, distilled or not-ED." is the most inept and unsnappy that I can recall. In fact I might say it was positively dumb. What Mr. Whitaker tried to tell you in a nice way was that the moisture that accumulates in musicians' wind instruments was not spit but actual water, and he was right...
Your article on schoolmarm Campbell's one-room Iowa school brings back many, fond memories. I spent the first eight years of my schooling in just such an institution including the black stove in the centre of the room. Such an educational beginning has always seemed to me to be adequate, providing one is a consistent and thorough reader of TIME...
...Procope, but just in time handsome Mr. Procope turned aside toward the chocolate cookies. 2) Rumors spread that the fancy pants of Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador, split slightly as he bowed before the President. No one could confirm this rumor, as the Ambassador stood poker-faced with his back to the wall most of the evening...
...Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work of the three members of the National Labor Relations Board, the doings of its 22 regional offices, its 109 field examiners, its 10,000 cases a year. Last week, with a formal flourish, Mr. Smith pulled back the curtains on his show...