Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tyrannical spirit - distressingly on the increase in our country - which would have a man eat, drink, sleep, think, wear a blue band on his straw hat, exactly as his neighbors. . . . Vast waves of mechanical thinking. . . . There is no need to "square yourselves," as has been suggested. Your motives are clear, perfectly decent, and justified - to those who will take a little trouble to think...
...Americans in the streets. . . . Six hundred or maybe 1,000 strong, the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino surround the Americans under Major Gilbert Hatfield and attack from all sides. . . . The fighting becomes general. . . . Our constabulary fight bravely in the Municipal Park. . . . American sharpshooters keep the corners clear. ... A Browning and two Lewis guns rake the yard. . . . Anyone so imprudent as to cross meets death...
...Dilly Dow" That the umbrageous name of Cyril H. D. G. Dillington-Dowse, who pays his vitriolic tribute to the illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June 12, does not appear to be a Who's Who in merrie England should not give you concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence of his letter that as butler or doorman of the exclusive Authors Club of London he was tidying up the library and, after the members had departed, when he found TIME unconsumed in the fire place, sat himself down...
...which no one is immune. Your latest accomplishment has been to find (issue for July 4) a little mud to throw at Col. Charles Lindbergh in your discussion of his "signed" story, classing him with Peaches Browning and Ruth Snyder. If your attitude toward him hadn't been clear before, it is now. Your petty article reminds one of the small-town gossip whose chief joy lies in muddying some clean name in the neighborhood. I have concluded that "readableness, interest," to quote one of your own apologies, is your chief standard...
Roberta Star Semple is tall; has a soft voice and a clear laugh. She does not know men. Aimee Semple McPherson has been careful to keep men out of her daughter's ken. The girl, however, does know people. On the platform of the Chicago Coliseum, which Mrs. McPherson hired at $1,000 a day to tell about her notorious kidnaping of a year ago (TIME, June 7, 1926 ), the daughter last week followed her mother. She held her audience's attention, put them in a mood of sanctity, but she took no money from them. Mrs. McPherson...