Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany. Suddenly this order was overruled by the Führer himself. "Investigation," read the official communiqué, "instituted by the Reichsführer has established that Pola Negri is Polish and therefore Aryan" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Pink with pleasure, Actress Negri cried: "The whole world knows that I am a Catholic. . . . Der Führer must be a brilliant man. I haven't met him, but I would like to. You know, I have a lot of big men in my memories...
Birthday. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, 80; in Chicago. His standard birthday speech: "Nobody has ever been able to give me proof that there is another life and I don't know that I would want it if there were...
Such amateurs of the flute as Rockwell Kent and Charles Gates Dawes know how hard it is to play correctly. Great flautists like New York's Georges Barrère or Philadelphia's William Kincaid have taken years to perfect themselves. Flute technique is hard because a flautist cannot see his lips or the air coming from them, but none the less his lips must be properly shaped, his wind properly directed. A flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column...
...volts. Local Indians long ago recognized the nature of the eel's shocking power, naming the creature puraque, derived from their word for lightning bolt. But civilized man, in the Age of Electricity, though he understands the source of the firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric. Two years ago Christopher Coates, the New York Aquarium's inquisitive tropical fishman, slipped an electric eel into a hard-rubber trough with metallic contacts an inch apart, discovered that it could light a neon lamp. That stunt became the Aquarium's No. 1 attraction, with...
...embarks on a shy, secretive courtship, and much to his surprise makes headway fast. He tries to keep his affair a secret from his friends, but long before Pat comes to live with him they know all about it. Pat has a secret of her own-tuberculosis. She and Robert go off for a honeymoon vacation by the sea; one day she has a bad hemorrhage. Robert telephones his pals; they round up a doctor, get him there in a hair-raising ride. That time Pat pulls through, but her days are numbered. When winter comes...