Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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COME, COME MR. EDITOR DON'T BE SO ACADEMIC ABOUT JALOPY IN LETTERS (TIME, JUNE 7). ANYONE OUGHT TO KNOW THE REAL ARGUMENT LIES IN WHETHER IT IS AN EUPHEMISTIC CONTRACTION OF "DILAPIDATED" OR SPRINGS DIRECTLY FROM "GALLOP," MEANING TO MOVE BY SPRINGING LEAPS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AZTEC PURGATIVE ROOTS AND SUGGEST PUNISHING ED FOR SUCH TRIPE BY MAKING HIM EAT HIS WORDS SEASONED WITH SOME JALAP AND A WELL TURNED JALOPY...
...Communist reporter for the Communist Daily Worker who covered the story of the attack by Ford service men on Frankensteen, Reuther and others, let me congratulate you on the fairly decent account of the affair in the June 7 issue of TIME...
...TIME, June 7 under the heading of "Theatre," you reported at great length the proceedings of the recent convention of the American Theatre Council. Several times in the course of this article, reference is made to "meat shows." I have been interested in the theatre for many years as a performer, manager and attorney and, for the first time, saw this expression used with reference to entertainment on the stage. In order to check my doubts as to the validity of this expression, I spoke with several people including a theatrical press agent, a reporter on Variety, the theatrical trade...
Last month she invited the dancer, now Roberta Jonay to dance at the Press Party in the White House (TIME, June 7). Result: Miss Jonay got a job in the floor show at Washington's Shoreham. Ever-generous Mrs. Roosevelt insisted that her friend stay on under her great roof, sleeping in the Rose Room, taking her meals with the family, traveling out Connecticut Ave. every evening in a White House limousine to do her 15-minute turn at the Shoreham. Last week Roberta Jonay, bound for Broadway, was as morally certain of landing a good...
...London, Conn., June 15-workouts since the arrival of Tom Bolles four Crimson crews here last Saturday seem to indicate some improvement in the Varsity as a result of recent shifts, although the Jayvees as a whole have shown a tendency to bog down...