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...Mister, you sure started something when you wrote that article in TIME, March 18, titled "Innocent in Wall Street," in which you mentioned the ad in the Wall Street Journal in which I advertised for a partner with $15,000 to help me dig a well and me getting in a mess with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...really very luck getting a free baton and a free guide book," he concludes. "If an urchin says to you, 'Where did you get that stick, Mister?' reply, 'I, sir, am a Harvard man.' Then duck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD'S FAIR DAY MARSHAL STRESSES IMPORT OF BATON | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

Chilean-born (but Spanish by title) Marquis George de Piedrablanca de Guana de Cuevas, husband of Margaret Strong, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., applied for U. S. citizenship papers in Toms River, N. J. Told he would have to renounce his title, he snorted: "Mister is good enough for me." In Manhattan, reporters discovered Arne Quisling, brother of Major Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway's Nazi party and Hitler puppet. Said Brother Arne, who has been 15 years in the U. S.: "For me, I like it here. . . ." In Manhattan, Trapeze Artist Atrtrys Iwanows (of the "Daring Iwanows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...latest political book is "The Hitler Cult," which has not yet been published in this country. Before that came "Left Wings Over Europe" and "The Mysterious Mister Bull." In addition to his painting, Mr. Lewis has published several novels, among them "Tarr." "The Apes of God" and "Childermass." His critical and philosophical works include "Time and The Western Man," "The Lion and the Fox," "The Art of Being Ruled," and "The Diabolical Principle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wyndham Lewis Predicts Invigorated Democratic Britain Will Be Victorious | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...used chiefly to give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister, just a word with you. In the course of perhaps two hours winding of the horn, the player will have to pour nearly a glass of water out of its coils and crooks. This is not spit. Shame on you! The horn acts as a still. The breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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