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...TIME, Aug. 28, 1933), a lightly satirical story of the Rochester, N. Y. music colony. Actually Author Horgan has since then written three others. Last week his latest went zipping past the window. This time it was less like a milestone than a winged western sandwich with the lifegiving onion omitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western Sandwich | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

This week on Jan. 7 events were to proceed as follows at The; Hague: The happy pair drive out in the State Coach (presented to Queen Wilhelmina at the time of her marriage in 1901) and alight at the Town Hall with its onion-topped steeple, to have their civil marriage performed. Oranges hang decoratively from Hague trees in honor of the Royal House of Orange-Nassau and nips of gin are downed by the sturdy Dutch in the frosty air. The royal coach rolls on to the Great Church of Saint James, and the Rev. Dr. Welter, former court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Royal Wedding | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Queen Noino Sirs: In regard to your news item on Onions, TIME, Oct. 26, p. 84, please be advised that the "possibilities of a contest for the unsavory [very unAmerican! ] job of being U. S. 'Onion Queen' " has been explored by the Farmersville Junior Chamber of Commerce, Inc. through its staging of an annual onion festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Miss Doris Garrett, Leonard, Tex., high-school girl, was crowned Queen Onion here June 2 at our Centennial Onion Festival and was featured in a parade of eleven floats and two bands and two drum and bugle corps. Eight thousand people saw her crowned by Congressman Sam Rayburn, Chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, Democratic National Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...comfort the Onion Committee might well look to Zonite Products Corp., which is currently advertising that all traces of onion may be quickly eliminated by a Zonite gargle, a process characterized as possible by Dr.Howard Wilcox Haggard and Chemist Leon A. Greenberg (TIME, July 1, 1935), as impossible by Drs. Marion Arthur Blankenhorn and Calvus Elton Richards (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Onions | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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