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...down as a freak along with Feminine Reader Graves and the rank and file of other feminine TIME readers who do not care if they are maligned so long as TIME subscriptions are not denied the weaker sex. My story herewith: Nearly three years ago at the time of my marriage I had my subscription transferred to my new name and address. At that time my husband and mother-in-law were reading the _______and _________ respectively. Of course many arguments ensued, in which we each tried to prove the newsworthiness of our choice. As the weeks passed I found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Three cheers to Reader Ritter, and if only women freaks (Husband Abbott) read TIME, may I be classed as a freak, for if needs must be that the beds go unmade and the five little Graves and Daddy Graves go without meals, Mamma Graves will continue to read TIME from cover to cover and be a happy freak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...this may be proving too much) and yet devours TIME from cover to cover, and insists upon no less than two years subscription at a time. Is it necessary to say that this woman is perfectly healthy, except for a touch of hay fever. If this woman is a freak I believe the dictionaries will require a good deal of correcting. What do you think? MAYNARD L. GINSBURG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...club singing, but never forgets her knitting and the folks back home. Faculty she arrives in time to pay the $50,000, and save the old homestead, and, in fact, the whole valley. Farmyard scenes, in which Kate Smith seems as much at home as any other side-show freak would be, show her figure in a most favorable light, and even give her a chance to sing a bit to the horses and cows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/25/1933 | See Source »

...rooms are elaborately decorated but a trifle dusty. Harried vendeuses in black elbow hip-swinging models about. Blue-jowled buyers scribble earnestly in little books. There is much confusion. One thing Paris couturiers have learned from Hollywood: to produce at each spring and autumn opening a certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their publicity value. Thus the Swiss designer Heim, opening his new shop on the Champs Elysees, showed sports dresses of natural burlap with clothesline girdles; Jane Regny had a combination evening gown and bathing suit; Gabrielle Chanel had gloves of 18-carat spun gold; Maggy Rouff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Higher Hats, Lower Waists | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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