Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 43 navy seaplanes recently flew from Pearl Harbor to Midway Island, a late copy of TIME was handed to Mr. Perry. He declined to read it because he would not break into his regular order of reading TIME. Incidentally, that particular copy of TIME went back to Pearl Harbor in one of the seaplanes that made the first non-stop flight over this lonely section of the Pacific Ocean...
...correspondent for The Nation, a national women's debating champion, a War veteran. The Negroes danced with Mamie and Regina. The intellectuals informed the girls that they were on their way to make an investigation of Cuban tyranny and undercover U. S. capitalist influence in Cuba. Their particular prey was to be ''America's butcher boy in Cuba," U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Every one of them was, moreover, the official representative of a portentous-sounding Union, League, Association, Order or Committee. And they bought drinks and talked. Mamie and Regina suddenly had visions...
...mongering Walter Winchell went off on a secret vacation. Like a symphony leader turning over his baton to a series of guest conductors, Columnist Winchell had arranged for a series of celebrities and near-celebrities to write for one day each his syndicated On Broadway. Each playing his own particular tune, the first half-dozen guest conductors sounded off as follows...
...Nothing particular happened until June 21 when Brother Al got a toothache. He stood the pain for four days, then lanced the abscessed tooth himself with the aid of radio instructions from a local dentist. The Key Brothers' next difficulty came on June 25 when they were warned that the right-hand landing wheel had gradually deflated, making an eventual landing precarious...
...presence, and a surpassing supply of vulgar bad manners which she complacently regards as frank common sense. ... As such dowagers, male and female, are fairly common in our milieu, shouldn't the priest be pre-advised just how to mingle firmness and kindness so as to persuade this particular pest either to pipe down or to jump in the lake...