Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words, I am one of I-don't-know-how-many-thousands of your newsstand buyers-and, speaking for all of us, we feel left out of things...
...slightest slight did TIME intend to put on Mr. Robertson, but TIME does not know the addresses of its newsstand buyers. Though admission to the library is by card only, he or any other newsstand buyer of TIME can obtain a guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television...
General Gamelin is very easily approached, his voice is quiet and he is always calm. ("It's no use getting angry at things, it's a matter of indifference to them.") His well-trained memory is still prodigious. He is said not only to know every road near any French frontier, but also to know by name and sight every French officer down through the rank of colonel. He is not chummy with his staff, but treats them with what they call "benevolent formality...
...England by the ears eight years ago, ran into 17 editions, was translated into nine foreign languages. Five years and one book (I Can't Escape Adventure) later, Bilbo opened a highly successful night spot in London's arty Chelsea, where he assiduously cultivated those in the know. Five months ago he started painting, now does nothing else, often works in his studio for 20 hours at a stretch. It wouldn't surprise him in the least if his fellow-refugee and longtime friend, Haile Selassie, should drop in for a chat and see what...
...most people who know their English history, Queen Caroline means the unhappy spouse of George IV. But George II's Caroline of Ansbach was, between Elizabeth and Victoria, England's ablest queen. Last fortnight her almost forgotten career was brought to light again by an English matron, in a biography that is a deft combination of scholarship and good storytelling...