Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the Rapid Transit System undoubtedly purchased years before I was born, I read the second paragraph [about the typical TIME-reading man], looked down at one of my two summer suits (a greasy pair of overalls) and then read on, looking hopefully for exceptions. I found none. Nevertheless, I hung on my strap and continued reading TIME, as I have been doing for years...
Only two of the witnesses admitted that they knew dark-haired Elizabeth Bentley, the self-confessed Communist spy. (But none admitted knowing that she was a spy.) Many of the people named by Miss Bentley-either as co-spies or as purveyors of confidential Government information-admitted that they knew each other. Three also said that they had been visitors at a small, red brick house in suburban Chevy Chase...
Oldtime National Guard officers would have none of such heresy. State control of the guard, cried the National Guard Association's 60-year-old Major General Ellard A. Walsh, "is practically the last bastion in the fortress of states' rights." He warned that the politically powerful association would carry the fight to Congress...
...little way off in "what was once the Bilbmore Coffee Shop" a group of women are busily weaving on primitive looms. The Chief explains to Poole that "none of these vessels [as the Californians call the women] had a baby this season [in the communal mating] . . . When they're not producing monsters, they're sterile. What we're going to do for manpower, Belial only knows...
...travelers moved on via gay Shanghai (where, after celebrating, Perelman next day could swallow nothing but "a little clear broth made of Angostura, lemon peel, and bourbon"), the Malay States, and Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...