Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that you have used the title of one of my father's most famous books, A Study in Scarlet, for the page heading of a book review [TIME, Nov. 22]. I would suggest that it would have been a courteous, if customary, gesture to have included a note of acknowledgment at the foot of the page...
Cheerio! A whistling cab driver drove them to the lodge at Mayerling, where they spent their last evening writing chummy notes to their friends and relatives. Rudolph signed one note with...
...Note--To give a complete explanation of the award problem would require too much space, since the HAA has scores of reservations and ruling ratifications. In trying to boll down the subject to reasonable size, the editorial in question was obliged to over-simplify in presenting both problem and solution. Even Mr. Norris has failed to mention all the technicalities; for instance, in cross-country, the first three places in the H-Y-P meet receive major letters. It is also true that Mr. Bingham and his staff are currently aware of the problem, but they have been aware...
...peculiarity of this reviewer to expect more from imported plays, such as this one, than of our own unproved offerings. (It is sad to note that the only two new exciting plays this season have both come from France--"Red Gloves" and "The Madwoman of Chaillot." There is no clear evidence that "Figure of a Girl" is worthy of its boat fare.) I therefore was disappointed...
Penance in Albany. Hamilton was quick to note the prevailing temper and character of the towns he visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass...