Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsstand reader of TIME for the excellent reason that I like to buy it down town and read it on my way home from business. I resent your advertisement on p. 36 of the Nov. 1 issue, in which you offer for sale to the highest bidder several original cover drawings of TIME, but add, "nonsubscribers need not apply." Why this discrimination...
...letter calmly, not happen to be interested in any of the five men whose pictures by Artist Woolf you offer for sale in this outrageously restricted manner. But I do have my eye on the extremely spirited sketch of Otto H. Kahn, by Artist Stevenson, which appears on the cover of your Nov. 2 issue. Is it to be "offered" also...
...suppressed issue was called "The Parisian Number"; on its mottled cover a young woman, silhouetted in white-space, stepped into the profile of a bathtub over the caption "Cut Out by the Censor"; on its first page appeared a joke that was characteristic of the issue?a joke printed in French, and making a play of the words "habits" (clothes) and "explorer" (to go through). "Translation on page 31," said the editors. "Ha! this matter must be salacious," cried the vulgar reader: ". . . habits de mon mari. J'ai I'habitude de les explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French...
...their nationals in Syria be protected. Premier Painleve and his Cabinet, realizing that some action must be taken, then "summoned General Sarrail to report on conditions in Syria, at Paris." Competent observers opine that a "Civilian Governor" will replace the "Military High Commander in Syria"; and that under cover of this "change in policy" Sarrail will be got out of the way without "dishonor" and without offending his potent friends of the "Left." It is widely felt in France that "the tactlessness in handling Syrian affairs has been all but criminal...
...books are published in the name of municipal individualism. With spectacular adjectival vehemence, the authors shout into the thickening ears of young U. S. cities, loud reminders of the peculiar zest and color of their rambunctious settler days, laying special emphasis on downright iniquitous conduct that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...