Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting possibility would be to leave Boston by the 3:00 o'clock plane for San Francisco, catch the Monday China Clipper to Manila. Charter a plane on Thursday to cover the short space to Singapore where British Imperial will take you to Bombay, where you may sightsee for several hours before catching the Dutch Airways plane arriving in Amsterdam the following Thursday...
...with Communism; Argentina who wants to support the League of Nations; Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and several small nations who would like to withdraw from the League of Nations to form an American League. Almost anything might come out of this combination because the agenda are broad enough to cover two continents. They permit the consideration of creating an Inter-American Court of Justice, of "measures tending toward closer association of the American Republics ... of co-operation with other international entities," of rules regarding the rights and duties of neutrals, of limitations of armament, of codifying international law, of tariff...
...biggest guns of the London morning Press boomed against King Edward because of Mrs. Simpson as never before last week-without mentioning her name. Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times, who has been sniping from haughty ambush at His Majesty (TIME, Nov. 23), emerged partially from cover with a most ingenious leader written around the appointment of the new Governor General of the Union of South Africa, blameless Patrick Duncan. As though admonishing Mr. Duncan, but obviously admonishing King Edward, the Times referred to the office of Governor General thus: "It is a position-the position of the King...
...major British magazines had shipped out their cheery, dowdy Christmas annuals to make the Holidays complete for homesick Britons all over the world. Heading the list was the venerable funnybook Punch, with its Almanack for 1937, which was like any other issue of Punch except that it had a cover in color by Ernest Howard ("When We Were Very Young") Shepard, many a color page inside...
...think I must be dead too. An ambulance whisks my body to the morgue, where I am laid on a cold slab. My flesh is cold, the blood dried, and my eyes wide and staring. Lying there naked, I am about to request the attendant to cover me with more than a sheet, when I awake with a strong wind blowing through the casement and on my uncovered self...