Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The demand I make of my reader," the late James Joyce once remarked, "is that he should devote the whole of his life to reading my works." Many readers of Author Joyce's obscure 768-page Ulysses and his even more obscure 628-page Finnegans Wake would agree that...
Mating Call. In Fort Worth, 0. A. Cole, candidate for Congress, filed suit to enjoin his wife from campaigning for the same office, asserted that she should "devote her time ... to the home . . . especially her evenings and nights!"
¶ This week Tokyo announced that' the Empire's Naval Minister, Shigetaro Shimada, stocky, cherry-lipped architect of Japan's most recent naval disasters (TIME, July 3), had been dropped from the Cabinet. But it was not an out-&-out sacking. Shimada will keep his other job...
Died. Norman Hezekiah Davis, 65, national chairman of the American Red Cross, onetime U.S. Ambassador-at-Large; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hot Springs, Va. At 39, he had made $1,000,000 in Cuban banking and Cuban sugar, retired to devote himself to public service. His financial, diplomatic and...
Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer, incoming president of the Association, repeated organized medicine's objections to the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (semisocialized medicine), which for twelve months has been in Congressional committee. Said he: "I believe it is incumbent on every physician in this country to devote at least two...