Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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An Indian woman, grandmother of Vice President Curtis, is a "squaw'' (TIME, June 15, p. 13, col. 3). By the same reasoning, if any, aren't Irishmen "Micks'" and Frenchmen "Frogs"? All these terms spring from tne noble tradition of Anglo-Saxon superiority and are equally...
A happy, happy man was U. S. Circuit Judge Curtis Dwight Wilbur one day last week as he stood on the dock of the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard and watched the 134-year-old frigate Constitution go back into naval service for the fourth time. The occasion was a belated...
This lyric was personally composed by Commander Locker-Lampson, son of English poet Frederick Locker, maternal grandson of the late Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart., a Vermonter, said to have been the first American ever made a British baronet. The music for Commander Locker-Lampson's patriotic song March On! is...
Divorced. Lois Long ("Lipstick" of the New Yorker); from Curtis Arnoux Peters (Cartoonist Peter Arno); in a cross-complaint to the suit her husband filed last month (TIME, May 25); in Reno. Charge: cruelty. Said Cartoonist Arno: "Well, I won't cartoon this incident. . . , That Vanderbilt thing is closed...
In its announcement of the change, Curtis Publishing Co. explained that Thursday was adopted in 1898 as publication day because in those days most retail shopping was done on Saturday. With shopping now spread throughout the week, earlier publication would presumably be more advantageous to the advertiser of retail goods...