Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S editors, bemused by gout, evidently have never leapt walls. In your issue of Jan. 17 you show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...
...Negro Lee Jones, a 31-year-old mill-hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week's doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When Mrs. Greene's friends began to gather he did not need to be told what familiar, ugly thought they had in mind. At the crucial moment when Sheriff Calvin Hollis was trying to calm the crowd, up stepped Planter Robert Knox Greene himself. How Planter Greene, a cousin...
...ante) and Germany, the planet at the other end of the self-styled "Rome-Berlin Axis," has brought Rumania under its influence. Therefore Premier Mussolini had not considered it necessary to go personally to Budapest, and Count Ciano quickly finished off the main Fascist business in hand, got official diplomatic recognition by Austria and Hungary of the regime of General Francisco Franco as the "legitimate" Government of Spain...
...this group of students there will, of course, be those who have so wisely resolved their problem of employment that it would be presumptuous to solicit their further attention. But there are those, on the other hand, who for one reason or another accept such proffered employment hastily and with little or no effort to appraise its nature or its consequences...
...done, one will like George O'Donnell's poem "Evening to Morning" for its simple but convincing imagery; he will think Laughlin's own poetry too simple, too bare. Because of its vivid picture, like a penetrating flash, "Mannikin," by Francis Fergusson, has strong appeal. On the other hand, one used to conventional poetry will tire of playing anagrams with the poems of Cummings; he will laugh at Robert Fitzgerald's surrealism, which Laughlin explains as the principle of redefinition by incongruity...