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...Bois de Boulogne station the Bey was met by General Charles de Gaulle and whisked through flag-decked streets toward the Hotel Talleyrand, to freshen up for the ceremonies, which included the presentation by the Bey to the General of a silver bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bastille Day | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...Freshen the nip: pour yourself another...

Author: By Ens. STIMSON Bullitt, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 12/17/1943 | See Source »

...aristocratic, silver-mustached H. Hobart Porter, suggested selling $5,000,000 of new West Penn bonds, $2,500,000 of preferred stock. SEC told him that since West Penn's common stock amounted to only 22.9% of its $121,383,501 of capital and surplus he ought to freshen the kitty. Instead of fighting or calling it all off, Water Works and SEC traded, compromised. The $4,000,00 of new stock raises the common-stock share of West Penn's capital to 24.6%, gives the public a 5.5% minority interest in Water Works' biggest baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Equities for the Public | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...private studios hidden in nearby groves. Breakfast is at 8:15. Box lunches are delivered to the studios. Until four, no visiting is permitted, and then only with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen conversation, prevent the formation of cliques. The food is famed. Coffee is served in the main parlor, where guests are expected to be interesting but not read manuscripts. Around ten, when Mrs. Ames retires, guests are expected to go to bed, too, not slip off to Saratoga for a beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yaddo and Substance | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Whenever Tom Mooney tells the story of his martyrdom he has at least one new fact to freshen it up. Last week, this concerned the famed photograph-in which the State claims the clock hands were retouched-which is the strongest piece of circumstantial evidence in Mooney's favor. Said Convict Mooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Mooney Marathon | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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