Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Permit me to correct an impression that might be created in the minds of some readers by the ill-natured and silly letter in the June 13 number of Time signed CYRIL D. H. G. DILLINGTON-DOWSE. I am an Englishman of 25 years' residence in London and 20 in the United States, and I know well the insular type of Britisher who writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent...
...United States of America. As one who served with the Canadian forces in France and Belgium from February, 1915, to October, 1918, in various ranks, from Private to Staff-Captain, Corps Headquarters. I desire to apologize to you, and the thousands who -will have read it, the deplorably tactless, ill-timed, and partially untruthful letter of "ONE" Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. . . . A "bitter taunt" indeed! A cowardly taunt. The taunt of one who has forgotten the English Public School Boy's principle of good sportsmanship. The taunt of one utterly lacking the first instinct of a gentleman...
...meet their respective wives, who arrived from the U. S. Said Mrs. Chamberlin on seeing her husband: "Why, your knickers are awful. Didn't you even have them cleaned?" Then the two couples flew to Berlin in three hops. The two wives were reported to be feeling ill after the first hop. ¶"The Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U. S. to show that...
...Peoria, Ill., one Mrs. Louis Schaer, suspected of shoplifting, quietly permitted the store detective to search her person for stolen articles. Nothing was found. Next she called over the floorwalker who had accused her and slapped his face so well that he fell to the floor...
...have excelled unmistakably and whose intellectual powers approach genius. Group two is composed of distincly high-grade men who have no attained true eminence; Group three might be said to hold the Average Man, not good, not bad; Group four is made up largely of the "unfortunates," who through ill health, lack of means, or absence of a normal endowment of native ability rather than the will to succeed, have prevented them shaping their careers satisfactorily; and Group five is reserved for "misfits", actual failures, and "undesirables...