Word: ens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Emily Kane Jay, 15, elder daughter of Peter Augustus Jay, U. S. Ambassador to Argentina; in Buenos Aires, following sleeping sickness and operation for appendicitis. Two days later it was reported that Ambassador Jay had resigned, giving her death as his reason; was en route to the U. S. with the body...
...Others played pinochle in the warm quarters provided for them. All fed well, said their masters. They were drawing two weeks' extra pay for doing nothing. A fortnight of this and the channel jam was cleared. It would freeze again immediately and block some dozen boats still en route. But the Lake Carriers Association, which had ordered out the ice relief tugs and the Sainte Marie considered the job done. It costs thousands of dollars daily for such work. The pro rata cost is insignificant where there are 200 boats, as there were in the original jam. For merely...
Next day a trainload of anti-Semite Rumanian students, en route from Kishinev to Jassy, decided to express their contempt for Jews at Calarasi. When the train drew to a halt they seized the Jewish engineer and bound him to his engine. Dashing through the town, they laid hands on whatever Jews and Jewesses they chanced to meet, dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge...
...Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth of the stage, the bearded emperor high on his throne, mandarins in their gaudiest best, eight wise men with their silken scrolls, are mise en scene for Turandot, cold, disdainful, asking her riddles, and, steps below, the unknown prince, prompted by love, guessing right. Then Palace Garden on a summer night - Turandot, icy still, unwilling to abide by the terms of her own contract, awakened by a kiss. The steps to the throne again...
...your returns do not amount to 1%, much less 50%. When direct mail advertisers regard 2% as a good return when they are giving good value, even TIME will do well to get even 1,000 people to "fill it in, encase it in an en- velope, address it, stamp it, mail it," when the "it" is a list of questions which can do the answerer no good...