Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is mistaken in this statement. The International Match Co., we believe, controls no match production in the U. S. It may or may not control the production (in foreign countries) of about 75% of the foreign matches imported into...
Because of the usual accuracy of your statements and, because your readers generally rely upon your statements as correct, I am writing this so that TIME may, if it so desires, correct the misstatement above mentioned...
Explanatory Ode All persons who aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis...
Sirs: Some months ago I was interested in reading a brief description-I believe it was in your "Letters" column-of the correct pronunciation of certain names and places in England. The enclosed clipping from the London Evening Standard, with its "duly authenticated Explanatory Ode" may be of use to those of your readers who are contemplating a visit to these shores...
...intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide no maternity ward for her soon-expected needs. She may have to be given a pardon...