Word: mite
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Canadian Magazine (circulation: 96,288*) is Canada's oldest and most deeply intrenched general magazine. In format and contents it might be rated a mite inferior to National Home Monthly. It is published by Major Hugh C. MacLean who started in the magazine business with his brother Col. John by founding the Canadian Grocer 45 years ago. Now the brothers spell their names differently, never speak...
...tabloids) that a son had been born. Later he issued a formal appeal for privacy "to permit our children to lead the lives of normal Americans." The Press gratefully accepted the notice, put rewrite men to work in various characteristic fashions: United Press: "Englewood, N. J.-A new mite of humanity . . . slept tonight in the nursery of the kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. ... In an adjoining room, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, rested from the ordeal of motherhood, listened delightedly to the shrill wails of the new arrival. . . ." Universal: ". . . He came at 7:30 o'clock in the white...
...Jewry was urged last week, as it is annually, to give its mite to rebuild the Jewish National Home in Palestine. Not all Jews approve or understand the politico-emotional band which is the World Zionist Organization, but all may contribute to the Jewish Agency, which includes Zionists and non-Zionists. Quota this year is $2,500,000, of which one million is to be raised in New York City...
...lately his country's cinematic Boy Friend. The ingénue is a tall blond named June Knight. Bert Lahr, whose large following is convulsed by his funny faces and mispronunciations, is the comedian and Lynne Overman (Dancing Partners) is more or less his foil. The siren is a dark mite with a great big smile, Cinemactress Lupe Velez. Her shapely shoulders are burdened with that part of the show which Mr. Lahr does not carry. Last week she inspired Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, whose employer owns the Ziegfeld Theatre, to strike off a memorable simile. Wrote Mr. Brisbane: "Thirty 'glorified...
...Pluribus Chinam. Chaos and disorder are "normalcy" to China. There was a trifle less chaos, a mite less disorder last week (although floods & famine continued and bubonic plague broke out in western Honan) as President Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in rallying all Chinese factions (except the Communists in China's central sore spot) to fight and resist the moral wrong of Japanese occupation of Manchuria...