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...brimming over. It wasn't just the press crowding to see the candidate outside his grandmother's apartment. "I appreciate him visiting his grandmother," says Arthur Witherspoon of Honolulu, who stood outside Dunham's apartment on Friday within the crowd of about 100 people. "It shows character," says Norma Parado, who lives half of each year in Honolulu, "I'm so glad he's here doing this. He's paused his campaigning for family. That's the kind of person you want leading our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Hawaii Trip: Family Comes First | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...Japan, the mysterious East went West as soon as the G.I.s arrived with jiipu (Jeeps) and gamu (chewing gum). Every modan garu (modern girl) is now avid for nairon sutokkingu (nylon stockings), the hittu parado (hit parade) and the popular magazines sekkuso sutori (sex stories). In showbiz, which is naturally fantazikku, starlets grapple with ojishon, kamera tesuto and doresu rihaasaru (audition, camera test, dress rehearsal). "Aimu sori," says the Japanese businessman as he breaks a kakuteiru (cocktail) date with his garufurendo (girl friend). He has time only for hassaru (hustle) and greater purodakuchibichi (productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Languages: Parlez-Vous Franglais? | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...surprising that France, undeterred by her recent failure to bring culture to the mulish American male by means of evening perfume, should lead the parado toward a war bigger and more ethic. Occupied with the loathsome mechanics of bombers and howitzers, the cruder nations seem to have lost sight of the aesthetic side of that man Mars. But there is no good reason why Gabrielic Chanel cannot pool her resources with the Quat d'Orsay in a gigantic endeavor, so that at the moment of the next Serajeve France will not be caught with her vanity case unopened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/10/1935 | See Source »

Despite the fact that it was deemed to be the most outstanding unit in the line of march the Harvard University Band only placed third in the opinion of the judges as compared with other bands marching in the NRA parado which passed through Harvard Square shortly before 8 o'clock last evening. The Alexander Graham Post of the American Legion was awarded first prize and the Waltham High School Band second place. Both the Legion and the Waltham band were prize winners at the Worlds Fair this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BAND TAKES THIRD PLACE IN PARADE | 10/26/1933 | See Source »

Married. Eva Tanguay, 48, plump, red-haired vaudeville comedienne, who played Cedric Errol in Little Lord Fauntleroy; to one Allan Parado, 25, her Hungarian accompanist, secretly, a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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