Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, after boosting TIME as a good paper for boys and girls to read, you dig up an old ditty that Bismark's sister used to sing in which Satan swears (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 11) and now (TIME, March 29, p. 38) you allow an "adder" to leave a shot of poison in the form of a witty, unforgettable coined word where youth will ran into it head...
...workers from the Botany Worsted Mills, how it spread until it included some 10,000 employes of other Jersey mills, how the grey-faced men and girls, exhorted by Strike-leader Albert Weisbord, by Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, picketed and paraded, were jailed, clubbed and watered with fire-hose (TIME, March 15), forget that these grim maneuvers still continue intermittently from day to day, and exclaim, when despatches from Passaic thrust themselves once more into the headlines, "What? That strike again?" Last week the strike flamed back into print with a vengeance...
Some weeks ago (TIME, March 1) 19-year-old Marion Nevada Talley, daughter of a Kansas City telegrapher, made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. She had sung in opera only twice before, with a small civic company in her home town. She was thoroughly inexperienced in the woes and wiles of operatic routine. But U. S. newspapermen seized upon her, made her their best news, roused a great public to have an exorbitant pride in a person it had never heard sing...
Emperors used to march the Appian Way in triumph. The Norge soared majestically above it up to the Eternal City and set off to fly, in 24 hours, a distance that used to take Caesar's legions two months of forced marches. She headed out over the Mediterranean for Corsica's upper tip. Colonel Nobile christened her radio with a message to Premier Mussolini ? steaming to visit Italian possessions in Africa aboard the battleship Cavour ? that all was well...
...months the Egyptian Cabinet has been trying to decide whether to accept $10,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr. wherewith to build and endow forever a museum adequate beyond all dreams, a beautiful and safe repository, equipped to preserve these treasures by every means known to science (TIME, March 1, et ante...