Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the crash of the Fleet Wing (TIME, July 30), which brought death to a prominent New Yorker, passenger service on the New York-Newport Air Service (TIME, July 9), was announced discontinued. The company's two undamaged planes will carry mail and newspapers between the two points. The passenger service was started June 27, and the Fleet Wing had safely covered 20,000 miles before her mishap...
...Daily Mail, London, said that the ex-Crown Prince is planning his escape to Germany. The paper points to the fact that the Prince is in communication with the German Nationalists, and that he is popular among ex-soldiers...
Gustav, King of Sweden: "Through the mail I received a letter as follows: ' Darling, on Monday at 6 p. m. I'll expect you at Odinsplace. I'll wait till 7, but you must be sure to come. Ester.' Looking closely, I discovered the postmark had obliterated the name of a sailor aboard the training ship that bears my name. By my special order that sailor was given a holiday on Monday...
...easy enough to understand. If a reader enjoys a book immensely, he has, in almost every case, no way whatsoever of thanking the author for the pleasure he has given him except by letter ? and such letters form by far the pleasantest part of any author's mail, no matter how much said author may lie about it. If the reader doesn't like a book, is shocked, offended or proudly discovers some technical mistake?his injured feelings and his professional criticism must, too, be expressed at long distance. And let him have no fear of going unheeded?such...
...mail. Nothing but fan-mail. And the whole human comedy ? ? tragedy ? farce ? exultation ? despair?coming in every morning to the breakfast-tables of a score or fifty not-so-very-extraordinary citizens of these states, done up in all sorts of envelopes, postmarked with the names of places of which in many cases the recipients have never even heard...