Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please cancel my subscription to TIME on its expiration. I am disappointed in what promised to be a very entertaining and educational publication. I feel that your reference to notables is at times impertinent and your liberty with diction runs into excesses. I also do not like the red border and feel that I would much rather have the Literary Digest as it covers the subjects covered by TIME in a dignified manner and withal fills my wants...
...gave to President Borno's administration; his report on the judicial system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro gendarmes under the command of U. S. onetime marines, waited in vain to arrest U. S. Senator King who announced he would not try to enter the country over President Borno's ban (TIME, March...
...Boston professional hockey team was returning from Quebec in its special car. At the border custom officers boarded the train; were shocked to find 20 quarts of whiskey concealed in the athletes' luggage. The contraband liquor was seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...
Since every Bozo in the country has an opportunity in LETTERS to gripe or gloat over TIME's policy from size to the red border, may I take this opportunity to find fault with the dropping of the column PEOPLE...
...Station about 11 a.m. ; and sitting across from me was a most distinguished looking old gentleman reading TIME. He sat up very straight, holding the magazine before him; and I was glad to see that several people on my side of the car were attracted by the bright red border of TIME'S cover, and were straining to read the caption under the picture of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth on the cover. The old gentleman seemed to be reading straight through, page by page, just as I always do, and it was quite evident that his enjoyment was steadily increasing...