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From Mr. Kent's Puerto Rican postman a brown girl in a white shift has just received and opened a letter by which she appears greatly affected, as well she might. It reads: "Puerto Rico miuniera ilaptiumum! Ke Ha Chimmeleulakut Anga-yoraacut. Amna Kitchimi Autummi Chuli Wapticum itti Cleoratatig tit." To the art officials of the Treasury Department, who hired Mr. Kent, as to other civil servants including Post Office Department guides, this gibberish had seemed merely one more artistic whimsy. But Mr. Stefansson said it was a message in the Kuskokwin dialect of Eskimos in Southern Alaska which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kent's Message | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Copeland, Senator from New York with whom he has long been on the outs, as a Democratic candidate for Mayor next autumn against the President's good friend, Socialist-Republican-Fusionist Fiorello LaGuardia. The President replied: "Ha! ha! ha!" When this was reported to New York's bumbling Senator, he cracked back: "I'm delighted if the idea gave him a chance to laugh. If he got enjoyment, that's fine. He needs it. As a health matter it's a good thing to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Unexpected Fishing Trip | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...from the House of Peers, two from the Diet's major parties). As chief secretary of the Cabinet the Premier chose Akira Kazami, a minor politician with no money. Kazami was as surprised by the appointment as the rest of Japan. With a deep belly laugh he roared: "Ha! Ha! Wisdom is not in my line; neither is money. Turn me upside down and you won't get even a nosebleed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Telephone Cabinet | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Gosh, what a racket over in Weld. There's a girl in the room .... but the shades are down. Ha! the first chapter doesn't start till page seven. That leaves only 282 1-2 pages to read. I ought to be done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...window. What is he staring at? The top of the pillars? Say, they've got nails stuck in all over them like a pincushion! What a dirty trick to play on the pigeons! Why shouldn't they build a nest over the steps if they want .... Oh, of course! ha-ha...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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