Word: epstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of your readers would sooner bet on a horse race than watch a fat lot of old ladies "bowl on the green." Oh, Percival! Oh, Clarence! When TIME left out such things it was laying down, just like they all do sooner or later. MORRIS ("AL") EPSTEIN...
...Epstein Again...
Sirs: Why not let Subscriber Epstein (TIME, Aug. 15) in addition to curbing his use of the term "sap" also refresh his memory regarding peculiarities of the verbs "lie" and "lay", should he again care to express an opinion publicly? transitive; "Lay," it has long been thought, requires a direct object. "Lie" is the intransitive verb meaning the act of reclining...
...Subscriber Epstein send to TIME for reproduction an authentic likeness of the late Haym Salomon, if he can. TIME believes that no such likeness exists, since the sculptor who designed his statue (TIME, Aug. 1) was obliged to do so on the basis of written out photo- graphic material...
Further, let not Subscriber Epstein make unbridled use of the term...