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...have a plan, Bill. It will keep the pastures green; and, what's more, it'll fill that Ivy-decked coliseum seven days a week. And what a Godsend it should be for that athletics-for-all program that's been so close to your bosom these many years. I guarantee that you'll get more men out on the sward of the Stadium than ever swarmed upon it during a Heptagonal track meet. And, to top it all. Bill, my plan is long-range, a sure-fire investment. Why, in two years this plan of mine will gross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...solemn satisfaction at court ceremonies under the yellow umbrellas, and at banquets when her father's guests dined from gold plates. Her Shamma (Ethiopian drapery) was a lot more comfortable than European clothes. In private crises there was the haven of her mother's great brown bosom. And, when she was 14, her father winked at tradition and allowed her to head the Ethiopian Red Cross and the Women's Work Association, even to receive their members at his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Sheba's Child | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...gruff-voiced Lord-of-the-Manor type who had divorced his wife, the Lady Emma, second daughter of the Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Lover and His Lass | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Having never been able to exactly clasp Bertie Wooster and Jeeves to my entertainment bosom, I can ALMOST understand why, after spending long years with them, Old Plum might be going for a little Teuton toutin' around Berlin-just for comedy relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

What airmen saw as the flames leaped up from the bosom of the city, what shaken Germans felt on the ground, was a new epoch in warfare. The awful power of independent air might had failed for the German because he tried it with too little on a nation whose soul was too stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: Brightness Falls From the Air | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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