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...TIME afraid of saying things straight out? I am one of the people who drink per-haps more than their statistical share of the 63,000,000 gallons of California wine TIME mentions in the Jan. 3 issue. So I was delighted to see that you condescend far enough to admit that the wine I have been drinking since Prohibition ended-even, if you must know, before prohibition ended-is remotely fit to drink, despite the fact that it is not poured by a reverent waiter from a bottle covered with cobwebs. I have seen that admitted before, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

TIME, how could you, how could you, how could you! The Lowells are a pretty decent tribe. They condescend to speak to the Cabots. It is the clan of the Cabots who, traditionally, converse only with God [TIME, Sept. 6]. And the word isn't speak-it is talk. I visited the grave of my life-long friend, Dr. John C. Bossidy, and, sure enough, he had turned over. Who could blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...those stately lectures which high British officials now and then condescend to give to an irreproachable organ like the New York Times was scrupulously mirrored in its pages last week: "With thrones toppling in Europe or being in subjugation to a dictatorship, it was the opinion of advisers to the throne that King George and Queen Mary were the perfect exemplars of British constitutional monarchy. . . . King Edward, however, has chosen to go his own way. . . . This has given rise to a considerable amount of bitterness and has split high society into two sections. . . . Mr. Simpson regards the friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...condescend to quarrel with your opponent. Let your underlings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Six Against Landon | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...curious tribute to the conservancy of the human race that the first arrival in any place, other things being equal, will condescend to the second arrival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Letter | 10/3/1935 | See Source »

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