Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about this book. I'll give my fortune and my life to teach the lesson that is in it. Now here's my idea," he yanked his hat down on top of a pair of bushy eyebrows, "I'll give the University five hundred copies of my book--I guess five hundred would be enough--and if the University wants it can form a committee to sell the books at $1.50 a copy, proceeds to go towards founding a Baconian class at Harvard." He lowered his finger a trifle. "Then we shall sell whether there is anything...
...received many mash notes from members of the audience at her shows, the birly-cue actress said. "Of course I do. Every girl in the 'honkytonk' gets lots of them. And you know, it's a funny thing, but a good number of theme come from college fellows. I guess other men must know better. I never answer these notes only in a few exceptional cases, where my curiosity is aroused...
...small, cheap ($700) airplane got under way last week when the Public Works Administration allotted $500,000 for its development (TIME, Dec. 18). How his department would use the money, Director Vidal was not ready to say beyond repeating that the Government would not engage in manufacture. Best guess: a new company which would be formed especially to design and develop the "flivver" plane for mass production and in which the whole manufacturing industry would be represented...
...gasoline, was sentenced to jail and deported. Mary could not go with him because she had once been in a reformatory, was an undesirable alien. Last November John tried in vain to persuade the Labor Department to let Mary cross the border for Thanksgiving. Said he last week: "I guess there is nothing more we can do. I'll have to go home...
...Doris Ulmann-Ballon ($3.50). One of the very few Southern gentlefolk writing today, Julia Peterkin has a proprietary interest in the Negro, who in her books behaves according to Hoyle (Southern style). Neither lynchings nor Harlem hotspots darken her clear pages. A Martian visitor reading Authoress Peterkin would hardly guess that there was such a thing as a "Negro problem." For her and her readers the Negro is the Southern plantation darky, whom Southerners always represent as being a lovable, child-like creature, living as a happy dependent on a sympathetic white master. Race-conscious Negroes and Northern negrophiles consider...