Word: cards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightest slight did TIME intend to put on Mr. Robertson, but TIME does not know the addresses of its newsstand buyers. Though admission to the library is by card only, he or any other newsstand buyer of TIME can obtain a guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television...
Before nightfall Lewis' crack at Garner had become a national gag. Bibbers lifted highballs with happy cries of "Well, here goes, you whiskey-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man." Columnists' consensus was that old tomato-nosed John Garner now had the drinking and card-playing vote locked up solidly...
...year-old militiamen - first of 200,000 drafted-had ever been away from home for more than a fortnight, found little heel-clicking or saluting at camps, were informally introduced to their officers, given a razor, shaving brush, comb, toothbrush and a post card, ordered to drop their families a note saying they arrived safely...
Interviewed privately, Mr. Howe declared he was dead serious. He explained away a similar announcement last January by saying that that had simply been a feeler. His strongest campaign card, said he, would be his pledge to write a daily column "on what goes on in Washington so it can be understood out in this part of Texas...
...practicing psychoanalyst. In a comfortable London house near Regent's Park, filled with his Greek and Egyptian treasures, Freud answers letters, continues his writing, even treats a few old patients. Every Sunday evening he settles down in the parlor, coddles his five young grandchildren, enjoys a lively card game called tarot with his sons. Always at his call is his nine-year-old chow dog, Lun. During his 16 years of suffering, throughout his 15 operations, he has never uttered a word of complaint. Patient and resigned, secure in his fame, he spins out his last thoughts, and basks...