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...haven't got that gay, carefree, New Yorker attitude of which Happy Bob has so long been the standard bearer, or perhaps Comforting Thoughts on the Bison don't apply to me, at any rate there were large portions of the book over which I was seen to nod just a touch...
...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
...arranged and executed masterpiece within the scope of his capabilities. This he proceeded to carry out in a fashion acceptable even to the extremely fastidious taste of the President, who, unbeknown to the Great Lord of the Kitchen, carefully inspected everything before dismissing the man with his customary curt nod...
...leadership that had permitted the enemy to gain the advantage. Tammany is old in the ways of politics. It knows that a "reform" administration will sneak in every now and then, at intervals like business cycles, every time that the Wigwam relaxes its vigilance and permits its sentries to nod. It knows too that with an aging and incompetent leader dismissed, with a younger and more hard-boiled man in charge, the Happy Hunting Ground will be open again, with its little black boxes and its fat franchises, just as soon as the public is bored to death with...
...done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been the one who broached the party's radical sentiments, quoting at great length from a three-year-old speech of Rexford Tugwell's to which, he said he apprehensively noticed, the others seemed to "nod approval." Most damaging direct quotation that Dr. Wirt could recall came from Miss Kneeland, Department of Agriculture subordinate: "Our group takes the leadership and recognizes the leadership of Dr. Tugwell [Assistant Secretary of Agriculture]." The Kerensky-Roosevelt analogy, according to Dr. Wirt, was made by Mr. Todd, who never...