Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In TIME, Nov. 21, 1927, p. 27, under the heading "Manuscripts" you told of the recent finding of a manuscript play by Oscar Wilde, or as you called him, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. The matter I wish to speak about is extremely small, but, knowing TIME'S...
Again to Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef...
At Washington, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William Edgar Borah, says: "The loitering, hesitating cheeseparing efforts at disarmament heretofore made will really get nowhere. . . . I do not think the proposal of Russia is in bad faith. I do not think Germany's manifested desire for disarma- ment...
The Story: Certain Manhattan dry-goods stores have copied the notion, originated by Frenchmen, of colored bedclothes. They are a success. Distinctions of taste have crept into the choice of bed-linen. For small babies, pink or tea-colored sheets are recommended. For men of fashion, blue sheets are most...
When questioned as to what he considered an ideal method of educating and bringing up children, he told of the new school that he and his wife had started in England. Composed of about twenty children who are permitted to run about nude if they desire, the school is run...