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...partial glossary of terms with which First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett will no longer have to cope: beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pulling a Nixie | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...subject of disarmament, equal discord was manifested. Some nations wanted complete worldwide disarmament, others partial disarmament. Some wanted League control, others did not. And the matter was finally disposed of so diplomatically and in such innocuous terms that the resolution was not thought worth publishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Interparliamentarlans | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Paralytic manifestations appear sometimes early, sometimes late. Recovery may be complete, or partial or complete disability develop. The central nervous system is attacked, sometimes involving the brain, always the spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infantile Paralysis | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Since many people do find Sir Harry Lauder's performances wholly or in part distasteful, what are his obnoxious points? Partial list: 1) His habit of performing character sketches between his songs in which the "character" is supposed to be, for example, an idiot boy who constantly wipes his nose with gusto on a homespun sleeve; 2) Sir Harry's habit of "forcing" new songs written by himself (and for sale in the lobby) on an audience which gives vocal and unmistakable signs that it wants chiefly his "old favorites"; 3) the extreme conceit and cocksureness with which Sir Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Harry Flayed | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...partial answer would be that famed Tsarist Commander Peter Nikolaievich Wrangel, Baron Wrangel claims to have a potential army numbering "40,000 White Knights" (TIME, Dec. 27), the members of which are banded together and employed in manual labor as a self-supporting colony in Jugoslavia and pledged to fight for "Holy Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Grand Duke v. Dictator | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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