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...Madam Heink may be elderly but it is entirely unnecessary to use the word old, and very, very disrespectful to her (Madam Heink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Crass Blasphemy | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Trusting that you publish an apology in your next issue of TIME to Madam Heink and that you will be more careful in the future, I remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Crass Blasphemy | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Madam," said the Vagabond, rising to his full stature, "shall we dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...would suggest that any husband in such circumstances could employ with wrath-averting dignity the self-effacing answer Bassanio made to Portia's magnificent devotion of herself: "Madam, you have bereft me of all words."-Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...week, 229 to 164, to limit the number of women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxonian Women | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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