Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscribe to TIME; I am what you term a newsstand buyer. I read TIME from cover to cover every week, and have only one criticism to make. May I ask why, although it was announced in the leading New York and Washington newspapers (not to speak of the Long Island papers) no mention was made in TIME of the engagement of Miss Thalia Fortescue to Ensign Thomas Massie? I do not know Miss Fortescue personally, but her family is among the most prominent of the summer residents of both Bayport and Sayville, while she herself is one of the leading...
...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...portions of TIME are profitable. The illustration on the back cover of TIME, Sept. 26 is particularly pleasing. The artist has wittingly caught the true feminine pose appropriate to the incident...
...navy blue cover there appeared not a portrait of Premier Dictator Joseph Pilsudski, or of President Ignatz Moscicki, or of Ignatz Paderewski, or Joseph Conrad, or Tadeusz Andzrezej Bonawentura Kosciuszko but an action picture of Gilda Gray.* "Polish dancer." Poles, incensed, took umbrage at such terpsichorean levity in their favorite periodical...
...always been Model T Ford. General Motors Corp., on the other hand, spreads its shots. It sends out a car to strike every purse-Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Oakland, Buick, LaSalle, Cadillac. It carefully picks up its dead shells and turns them into electric refrigerators, an effective barrage to cover a retreat. It invests in real estate. It trains its bullets on markets far afield, on Europe, on Australia, scattering its products all over the globe...