Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where he, his wife and daughters read it. It is then sent to Huntington, W. Va., where it is read by a man and his wife-and from there, well, I do not know where it goes, but the chances are that TIME'S journeys do not even then end. Summing it up: A safe estimate is that at least 50 people read the magazine in the public reading room, after which an even dozen read it in rotation...
...George Fred Tilton, whose autobiography, Cap'n George Fred, was published by Doubleday, Doran in 1928. He is the last of the old whaling skip pers. His book is interesting, but his lectures are far more so, and intimate talks with him (aided and abetted by certain refreshments) even more so still. He describes, apparently accurately, and certainly graphically, the intimate home life of the whale. He jibes with the sharks you mention in saying that killing whales at that time is extremely easy (though he deplores the necessity!). By the minuteness of detail I would judge that Captain...
...knows too many after-dinner stories even to count. He knows his company for any particular one. He is no vulgarian. His manners would be called excellent except for his penchant to monopolize the conversation. On first acquaintance he seems a truly remarkable man. He does not wear well. That he has the talent and the information to make the mess a lot worse than it is, bad as it is, is not questioned...
...hand-out.' Even the British correspondents often consulted the tabled figures supplied by Mr. Shearer and were forced to admit they were correct...
...Britons who moved out last week were early birds, first of a host of evacuations which will keep moving all through the early winter. Cheerfully their bands blared "Tipperary," "John Brown's Body," and even "I Can't Give You Anything But Love?Baby!" But the Rhineland villagers and the citizens of Wiesbaden stood lowering, glum. Only at Koenigstein did the local mayor pay a grudging honest tribute...