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...Fork-Wise Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Your information "spells" French-like. The Prince's name is "Asfa Wassan" in English. He is 16, speaks English (likely better than any English prince speaks Amharic). American quite fluently, French better, interested in many things other than bicycles, and is quite familiar with the use of knife & fork. ERNEST WORK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life is for the Apes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homo Sappy ens | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...intellectually striving debutantes whose only recollection of "Past and Present" is that it might have been a Vincent Club show of ten years ago. There is something rather dashing and knowing in the statement, "Oh Carlyle-a chronic dyspeptic," particularly if said with a sweep of the salad fork...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/24/1932 | See Source »

Knox County, Ky., is feud country. Within its hilly boundaries, no spot is more remote than the little country store on Cold Fork Creek. 18 mi. back in the mountains from Barbourville. Walter Smith and Link Gambil, two men who had hated each other for a long time, walked into the store, grasped left hands, started pistolling each other. Feudist Gambil was shot seven times; Feudist Smith thrice. Both died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: 23 Lay Dead | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

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