Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an ardent reader of TIME and LIFE I have been closely watching both publications and have failed to notice any expression from your readers for the beautiful, comfortable and most accessible club and reading rooms which you have opened to your subscribers in the TIME and LIFE Building this summer...
...good grey little General leads a good grey little life. Just before 9 o'clock each morning he leaves his apartment on the third floor of a five-story house at No. 55 Avenue Foch, near Paris' Arc de Triomphe. He is driven in a staff car to his office in a long, low, old-fashioned building at No. 4 bis Boulevard des Invalides, below the gold dome of Napoleon's tomb...
European Bystanders. The economic life of Europe's neutral nations was partly strangled not only by these changes but by force of arms. Switzerland, completely surrounded by combatants before the War was over, found itself on the verge of starvation for lack of foreign wheat. Only the end of the War in 1918, plus an exceptionally good harvest, saved the Swiss from famine. But armies eat chocolate, and Swiss chocolate manufacturers did a thriving business, for the Allies saw that they obtained raw materials. Swiss peasants who owned woodlots found they had a good market for fuel. Electric power...
Last Sunday U. S. radio listeners heard some of the music from the Library's stacks. Howard Barlow led Columbia Broadcasting Symphony through ten waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches of Johann Strauss and his contemporaries. The titles of the pieces told much of Vienna's ballroom life-Electrophor polka and Motoren waltzes, written for dances of technical students; Aesculap polka and Paroxysmen waltzes, for young medicos. A quadrille on English themes contained the tune of Just Before the Battle, Mother. The pieces, some performed for the first time in the U. S., did not call for waltzing...
...high holiday humor, this bright, fast, pert reporting rollicks along almost as if there were no war in China. Messrs. Auden & Isherwood are right in their element describing such Alice in Wonderland scenes from topsy-turvy Chinese life as two old men gravely trying to put a rat in a bottle, a woman tirelessly pouring water through a sieve. More startling than anything they report about the East is what they report, often unconsciously, about themselves. Their own honest verdict on Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu: ". . . though we wear out our shoes walking the slums, though we take notes...