Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: All kudos to Eurich and Wilson for the Current Affairs Test in the magazine for June 29. I hied myself straightway to this town's first TIME-booster, Author August W. Derleth, candidly hoping to catch him with little better than a college average. Despite the fact that he is revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth...
...Landon himself once made significant news when for the first time in the 1936 campaign he played the politician's trick of picking up a rival's catch phrase, giving it an ironic twist. Planning to stop at a Greeley, Colo. rodeo on his way back to Topeka for a special session of Kansas' Legislature this week, the Republican nominee was told that he would be driven around Greeley in a landau once owned by Mrs. Horace ("Baby Doe") Tabor. "A landau," smiled he, "just a horse & buggy for a horse & buggy candidate...
...altarpiece is still in Siena, but two superb little panels showing a 14th Century Italian Christ resurrecting Lazarus and meeting the Samaritan woman fell into the hands of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who let Cleveland exhibit them last week. Said Director Milliken, "The Duccios are the prize catch of the show. I just can't believe they're here...
...away from home eight months. That he was earning his salary every minute he was absent, no one can deny. As he stepped on the boat at San Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase of the season: The promise to U. S. business of a "breathing spell." In December, after intimately traveling through the month-old Philippine Commonwealth with President Manuel Quezon, Roy Howard again produced a front-page sensation by asserting that the Islands wanted, not full independence, but permanent commonwealth status. Three...
...suspecting that there was nothing in the devil-fear to which the islanders had been addicted, Tatagu led a fishing expedition to sea one day, pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi fish. Returning home in triumph, the Chief of Chiefs learned that a son had been born to him. In accordance with a local custom of naming progeny after the most...