Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telephone Tycoon Colonel Sosthenes Behn was still with his battered building, although the U. S. and British embassies had long since been officially evacuated, and last week were scarred by air bomb splinters. Splinters lodged in the heads of a left-behind British military attache and an Englishwoman but neither was seriously hurt...
...statement issued in France last week by Mrs. Simpson which in effect branded the editor of the Washington Star as a gossipmonger and sob-writer of the lowest order. In Cannes, Mrs. Simpson announced to the world Press: ". . . Mrs. Simpson states that Mr. Noyes is not her cousin. . . . Neither the Duke of Windsor nor Mrs. Simpson ever gave Mr. Noyes any kind of interview. . . . Noyes was received at dinner by King Edward, but . . . the conversation on that occasion was solely of a general nature and took at no time the confidential turn indicated by Noyes in his articles. . . . Mrs. Simpson...
Frantically, for 36 hours last week, Mr. Noyes tried to reach Mrs. Simpson by transatlantic telephone. She would not speak with him. Neither would her host and press buffer, Herman Rogers. This behavior so infuriated her cousin, Lelia Gordon Dickey Noyes, who married Newbold Noyes after divorcing Robert Russell Dickey Jr. (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), that she urged him to let Wallis have it now with both barrels and reveal much not yet revealed. In time's nick Mrs. Simpson be gan exchanging cables with Mr. Noyes who had taxed her by cable with "an act of incredible unfairness...
...both asked me to do." I have talked to other party, who assures me he had no idea you were even going to write an article but believed you were simply going to use your American press connections to correct picture of me personally in America. Neither of us dreamed you would bring his name into your story, capitalizing your presence for a few hours in his house as a guest. . . . Truly sorry this situation had to arise between you and me." "I ask you in seriousness," cabled back Publisher Noyes, "whether I brought his name into your story." There...
...text that last week's audience heard was neither Poe's nor Balmont's. It was Fanny S. Copeland's English translation of a German translation of Balmont's Russian translation. Though the poem had grown worse in its travels, nobody seemed to care. The audience was thrilled by Rachmaninoff's ingenious sonorities, by the whispering pianissimi and loud thundering of the University of Pennsylvania chorus, by the shivering of parallel fifths in the high winds. Critics found The Bells an effective piece of scoring, mourned its unevenness. The audience was less reserved, applauded...