Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: You quote Earl Baldwin of Bewdley as saying in two long paragraphs and 175 words (TIME, Aug. 28-Education) what Maxwell Anderson made Washington say better in the play about Valley Forge in 15 words: "This liberty will look easy by and by-when nobody dies to get it." JOHN J. LIPSEY Colorado Springs, Colo...
...Items for Miscellany are gathered and checked with care. As for Teddy, he got home to Boston last month, having hitchhiked from Oakland, Calif, (where his trusting owner, retired Chiropodist Fred Sidney of Harvard, Mass., turned him loose). Thanks to fellow travelers' assistance, smart Teddy had made the 3,272-mile trip in only 26 days...
...Limited Emergency." Franklin Roosevelt meantime made much hay of the Neutrality which he had. He busily divided its enforcement between Treasury, Army & Navy and other departments (see p. 22). Attorney General Frank Murphy for the newsreels spoke tensely of spies and of every patriot's duty. Federal legalites searched the Constitution and the statutes for special powers...
...Amytis' gift of curiosity," says Author Riding, "is one thing to remember about her; and her placidity of temper is another. . . . Their combination made her a sensible woman." But particularly the thing to remember about her, implies Author Riding, is that she was a good woman because Cyrus was a good husband...
Contemporaries sometimes accused Boone of being a misanthrope who liked Indians better than white men. Biographer Bakeless agrees with Boone that this was a libel. But if Boone got a reputation for claustrophobia it was his own fault; he himself made up most of the jokes about needing elbowroom. (His favorite was the story that when he learned of a new neighbor 70 miles away he turned to his wife Rebecca, declared: "Old woman, we must move, they are crowding us.") Fact is, says Biographer Bakeless, Boone sought elbowroom in the vain hope of finding a new country where...