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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than any other Alpinist of royal or imperial blood. He is an all 'round sportsman with a keen interest in baseball. His attire, when he landed from the Majestic, was faultless to the point of being inconspicuous: a derby hat, black coat, black suit, black tie and a correct white mourning shirt with narrow black stripes. Yet neither shopgirls nor stenographers yearned at him from high windows, or stood upon sidewalks to ogle up at "The Prince...
...pupils saw the piece about the "Street War" [TIME, Nov. 8] and were disgusted. Such words as "tribe" for companions, "Negresses" for colored girls, "Pickaninnies" for children, did not "take" well. A common reference to the affair with correct names would be better. They like to read of colored people when anything of note is given...
...service," quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with "an original, Historical and Educational Cavalcade of Floats, Men and Costumes, with Lessons on Correct Method of Addressing Mail Matter." Dr. O'Callaghan has been rewarded. He reports that the Nashville mail service is famed "from Ellis Island to the Golden Gate," that as little as 22% of outgoing mail arrives at the Nashville Post Office after 6 p. m.* The Christmas deluge...
...Please correct your error regarding Smith Wildman Brookhart in TIME, Dec. 13 You say "The wild bull of the Senate will be back again in the 70th session, having made peace with the Iowa Republicans." A state paper expressed the facts more correctly as follows : "Smith Wildman Brookhart is home again in the Republican fold-it was done by moving the fold over to him." ERNEST WYKES...
...lapse recently referred to jestingly when an ignorant attorney before the Supreme Court insisted that Mr. Warren was Attorney General, and the Court was obliged to correct him patiently...