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...Commander Collins' advice to un-single men, "Red" Schutte is horning in on our very own territory. Fifty men in the second swimming group can testify that a certain red-headed JCC (Junior Cadence Caller) refers to him constantly as her "Superman". We recommend leniency in this case, however, Dote, the redhead is not quite five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

Much as I dote on people who read this column, I must urge them to do a little listening on their own, or my efforts here will continue to meet pairs of uncomprehending eyes. No one ever learned to like jazz simply by reading about it, and today I want to call attention to the various excellent opportunities there are now of hearing jazz on the radio. Of course, first-hand experience is the ideal, but it is not always possible to see a good jazz performance in person, so that the radio becomes the obvious substitute...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

...present Sir Charles produced three fabulous daughters. He promised Sarawak to his 28-year-old nephew, Sir Anthony Brooke, but withdrew the promise when Anthony married pretty Kathleen Hudden, a commoner. Last April he announced his intention of establishing a constitutional monarchy for his superstitious, head-hunting subjects, who dote on such delicacies as wood slugs and hot rice wine, who count among them such medical curiosities as the "Snake Man" who sheds his skin once a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: End of Absolutism | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...daughter: Vasya, now 19, and Svetlana, 14. Good-looking Daughter Svetlana is the apple of her father's eye. The two children go to school, but live in the Kremlin. Joseph's cackling, gossipy mother, old Ekaterina Georguvna Djugashvili, whom Soviet and foreign journalists used to dote on interviewing, died in Tiflis in 1937. She had for several years lived in an apartment in the former palace of the Tsar's Georgian viceroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Only a really brazen lover of the country could dote on these agricultural beauties without noting the rags and tatters that concealed some of them for many people and blotted them out entirely for others. U. S. farmers had little share of prosperity in the years before the crash. Depression deepened the problem, left farmers carrying into it a mortgage debt almost equal to income. In every 1,000 farms during the first six years of depression, 236 were foreclosed. Average value of farm land dropped from $48.52 to $31.16 per acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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