Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In view of the fact that you once accused me in your columns of being "vinegary," and on another occasion labeled me as "a minor league wit," you will realize how it pains me to write this letter. Nevertheless your magazine over the last four weeks has been a major...
"Sacrificial Altar." The week's sound & fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman'...
H.M.S. Sheffield, flagship of the American Gulf & West Indies Squadron, had just done Britain's honors at the inaugural cf Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos. Last week, she lay at anchor off the Colombian coast, while her handsome senior officer, Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant, went inland to...
Feb. 27, 1929-Briton Hadden, 31, died of a streptococcus infection which reached his heart. Hadden's illness was the occasion for appointing a managing editor. Before that, Luce and Hadden had alternated as editor and business manager.
René Garneau, Montreal critic and devoted apostle of French letters, sounded the first sharp note. With apprehension he had watched the rise of such French Canadian writers as Gabrielle Roy, whose Bonheur d'occasion (Accidental Happiness) became a U.S. best-seller as The Tin Flute (TIME, March 17...