Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opened in London, last week, but not yet patronized by the Royal Family, was a "Public Inhalatorium." Poor persons with colds may pay tuppence (4¢) to sit in a large chamber inhaling beneficial gases. Individuals of the middle classes will doubtless choose to pay two shillings (48¢) for a booth in which they may sniff privately...
...Prince George, younger sons and still resident at Buckingham Palace, ask their mother's permission if they wish to sleep later on any given morning than 8 o'clock, the family rising hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...
...ordinary American is not rich. . . . Salary or income may be larger than that of his opposite in England, but his expenses are bigger; and that is why, were he living in England, his wife could have one servant, possibly two of them. . . . Certainly her children are a help to her very soon. . . . By the time he [an American boy] is seven years old he is a handy man in the house, with chores to do, which he really does. Then take the little girls. . . . At the age when her little English cousin is having her hands washed...
...barbaric land where tribal loyalties are the strongest bond, the person of the King may be of paramount significance. Had swart, wiry little King Amanullah been assassinated, neither his phlegmatic 280-pound brother, or another brother who is insane, or the boy Crown Prince Rahmatullah (TIME, Sept. 17) could have saved the dynasty of Durani. But Amanullah was not dead. Presently he came speeding by motor car into Kandahar, "Second City of the Realm," after encountering no opposition from the bandits who, stupid, seemed to think that when a king has abdicated he is going to stay abdicated...
...This Prospectus again shows us that this Grand German Opera Company is working with our name. How can they do so thinking of the facts, that they have not our orchestra, not our chorus, none of our conductors, none of our decorations and none of our technical men? They may perhaps have one or the other of our soloists-but that is not Bayreuth, is it? Could we ask you to give notice to the American Press that this whole enterprise has nothing on earth to do with Bayreuth...