Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most readers of TIME had a pretty good premonition of it some time ago when TIME reported a farewell conversation between the King and the Duchess of York and quoted the King as referring to her as "the future Queen of England." I don't recall the exact occasion but it was either at a departure of Edward from London on a long trip or the departure of the Duchess of York from London with her husband and Edward bidding them goodby...
...anyone who recalls what Japan has been putting over on China in recent years. In Shanghai the mere suspicion that a Chinese had thrown a pear core out the window of a restaurant at a Japanese sailor was taken by Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...
...scarlet evening gown, high-necked in front, sleeveless and backless was completed by the Paris House of Worth last week to the exact measurements of Mrs. Simpson, rushed to Madame Tussaud's waxworks, London. There dextrous British Mr. John Theodore Tussaud, great-grandson of the original French Madame, was personally finishing up a wax head of Mrs. Simpson while four trusty Tussaud modelers made the rest...
...buildings, both extant and vanished. Through the children of the late Berthold Hochschild, one of the founders of American Metal Co., a room soon to be doubled in size has been provided to show a portion of these publicly. On exhibit in the Hochschild architecture gallery were four microscopically exact models, made by unemployed architects under the Architects' Emergency Committee, of Manhattan buildings important in the development of U. S. architecture: cupolaed Federal Hall, on whose balcony George Washington took his oath of office as President; the brownstone St. John's Chapel; Hamilton Grange, a typical Manhattan country...
...stucco chiefly because pink is a favorite color of Rosemary's breezy, strong-minded old Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece). The "Boarders" and the "Day Boarders" wear wool or tweed uniforms in winter and gingham ones in spring tailored to Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact that it perfectly reflects the imperious personality of its headmistress. Last week Miss Ruutz-Rees, still going strong...