Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Rainey, the Democratic floor leader, was no less hostile toward the President's plan: "We're not going to do it. This isn't the President's baby. It's ours. If this is the best the President can do in advising Congress we don't need any more suggestions from...
...Yorker, that they were the product of Dorothy Parker in her less inspired moments. Her collected works, however, indicate that she is a separate and distinct personality; if this were the place for it, a discourse on the respective philosophies of the ladies concerned might be forthcoming,-but, this isn't the place...
...Last week William Andrew Mellon attended his last Hoover Cabinet meeting as Secretary of the Treasury. A profuse exchange of kind words followed. Back at the Treasury Mr. Mellon took the oath as Ambassador to Great Britain, cryptically remarking: "This isn't a marriage ceremony. It's a divorce." At the same time Ogden Livingston Mills was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury. When Ambassador Mellon was handed his commission, he declared: "This is the first time I've received something." Secretary Mills twitted him on his jokes: "Really, you're getting...
...comes ahydroplaning down the Orinoco, though it might be the "great, green, greasy Limpopo", for all we care. Interest grows as the young man precipitates a triangle and goes slinking around the house at night whispering to the girl. Later, the story outdoes itself by revealing that the hero isn't a hero after all, but a selfish meanie out for gain...
Sirs: My father, the late Daniel E. Hervey, worked on the editorial staff of several New York papers for years and one of his pet hobbies was writing a short column of "If you see it in the Sun it isn't always so." "If you see it in the Sun" was Dana's pet caption. I have inherited his hobby and recently took you to task when you called citizens of Caracas, Venezuela, something other than Caracanians. One of your editorial staff wiggled out of that one but this time I have you right. In TIME...