Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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You have a good Department of Medicine -why not use it for pertinent consultations ?
¶ Actor Boyer is bald halfway back on top. He wears a toupee (hairpiece or divot in Hollywood) for cinema and most public appearances.-ED.
Perhaps I am getting behind in my knowledge of slang, but where did you get the name "juke box" for nickel phonographs in your article about Glenn Miller? (TIME, Nov. 27). In Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, everyone calls them "Groan Boxes" and the expression, "Flip a nickel in the groan...
In TIME (Dec. 4-Education "School-marm") I was surprised to learn that a one-room schoolmarm would pay boys 15? a week for chores. From my experience in a one-room school I found that the pupils thought it a great privilege to get away from that inimitable humdrum...
The carriers of water and the hewers of wood were never encouraged to hurry, for both the teacher and boys knew that it was drudgery and took much time. Each understood the other's surreptitiousness.