Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every small-town paper (not to mention metropolitan dailies) runs a column of personal items, a bald list of local names and picayune events that mean nothing to the outside reader, may mean a lot to knowing fellow-townspeople. Author DeLamater takes a typical column from the "Steepleton Weekly News," makes each item the text for a chapter about the people concerned. By the time she has finished the column she has expanded it into a novel...
...green Tyrolese kneepants, short jackets, feather-peaked hats. Composer Lehar, who still resides in Vienna, is the conductor-mem-ber of Vienna's Rotary Club, rehearsed the two operettas The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles to entertain his fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each Rotary club admits only one representative of each profession; and whereas in India and the Malay Peninsula the British lawyer and native lawyer practice in different courts; shall their practices be designated as distinct professions, a member of each admitted...
Learning that Philanthropist & Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness were staying at Claridge's Hotel, London, Their Majesties George V & Queen Mary hastened to send them a message. Next day, at the top of the Court Circular, high above the social arrangements of dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons, appeared this item: ''Mr. & Mrs. Edward Harkness had the honor of being received by the King and Queen this morning." Not greeted at a mere Court (there were two last week at which 19 U. S. women were presented), the Harknesses visited Their Majesties in their private study, chatted half an hour. Said...
...flying men ask others to differentiate, they must do so too. They must-and many of them do-appreciate TIME'S loyalty to facts in air reporting. The latest instance, and the one inducing this letter, was your item regarding Royal Air Force fatalities. The observation that Britain's frequent accidents are attributable to fear of bombing raids and the resultant development of "interceptor" fighters of high performance and low safety factor, is not only accurate but informative. It indicates, as have other items of the past that TIME given effects, seeks causes. The aircraft industry appreciates such...
Nothing in the World is quicker than a British budget. In London, in Cape Town, in Canberra or in Ottawa all that the responsible minister has to do is to state that on item of revenue, tax or tariff is changed and it is changed. New revenue rates are automatically effective unless the budget is rejected by Parliament-which almost never happens. Therefore when Hon. Mr. Bennett rose to speak in Ottawa last week he held in his hand the fiscal fate of Canada. Bang-he upped letter postage between Canadian cities from 2? to 3?! Bang-up went...