Word: partings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba "proves" (by half-truths as well documented as Mother India's) that U. S. citizens ought to be even more ashamed of themselves than Indians. In Uncle Sham it is blazoned that President Hoover recently said (TIME, May 6): "In no part of the world are life and property more insecure than in the United States of America." Judge Lindsey is called to witness that "at least 45% of [U. S.] high school girls have had intercourse with men before they leave school...
...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
Aged 54 (this summer), he forfeited his apartment lease, owing $2,083.35. He was fined $8,000 for plagiarizing part of his book Intestinal Gardening. He sued his wife for divorce at Reno, charging cruelty, and won. Five days later he married a Mrs. Vasilieff Safrom at an out of the way Mexican town. He lost his job as national secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. He disappeared...
Author of the winning text was Robert Collier, strenuous salesman, editor and staff of Mind, Inc., a monthly magazine of practical psychology. After winning the prize he admitted that he goes to church and while he cannot attend regularly "always manages to have some part of the family there...
...Mosque Omar where thousands of Moslems were celebrating the eve of Mohammed's birthday. The lone Jew paced slowly up and down, pensive in the heavy Palestine dusk. He looked at the aged stones of the Wailing Wall where the day before 10,000 Jews had gathered as part of the fast of Tisha B'Ab, to lament the two destructions of the Temple. So old are those stones that, looking at them, one can reconstruct the scene of the first destruction when in 586 B. C. the Chaldeans, sword and armor glittering in the bright sun, swept...