Word: etc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention to TIME of Nov. 28, "On Trains, and made the suggestion that we should add to your paragraph that the "North Coast Limited," Chicago-Seattle flyer, on the Northern Pacific, had a women's lounge and smoking compartment with long sofa and dressing tables, bath, manicure, maid, etc., added to its new equipment in March...
...slice torn off for campaign expenses. Then come the tickets for balls and kindred entertainments. . . . Congressmen are considered easy marks and their names grace many a list of angels, honored by the company of America's leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before the galleries. No sightseers observe the Cabinet in argument, excitement or perplexity. You cannot tune in on the White House static. Before a Presidential Proclamation, the controversial...
Sirs: TIME, Dec. 5, p. 18, says in col. 2 : "He said, 'I will burn it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity.' After this arrogant comment . . ." etc. Of course I am wrong in thinking Sir Basil's comment not arrogant that arrogant implied overbearing assertion of superiority, of others' rights not recognized, that haughty would be better here, that haughty implies only a consciousness of superiority. Wrong words in wrong places keep TIME from the best tables. Haughtily, RODERICK BISSELL JONES Winstead, Conn...
...Lindbergh, as usual, was surrounded by handshakers, notables, cheer leaders; was rushed to appointments. Nevertheless he stole time to examine famous airplanes at the Smithsonian: Langley's historic machine; the NC4 which flew the Atlantic in 1919; etc. To their number will be added the Spirit of St. Louis...
...Scottish pudding. Recipe: mince & season the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys etc. of a sheep or calf: put in suet, onion, oatmeal, blood; wrap and tie the mixture in the animal's stomach; boil...