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During a week in which-as the President told his neighbors-the foreign situation had kept him busy 12 to 15 hours a day, he also found time for an automobile ride with gloomy Guest Baruch, two short trips down the Hudson on the Potomac, a picnic lunch with members of the summer White House staff. And in a call at the Hudson River State Hospital for the insane, the President proved himself a less gloomy visitor than his own guests. He told a class of graduating nurses what had happened when he visited a similar institution at Ogdensburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Gloomy Visitors | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...best translation would be 'he doesn't mind taking a girl home from a picnic.' Literally translated it says 'he doesn't care out.' When a Pennsylvania Dutchman says he 'doesn't mind' he is expressing a rather high volume of enthusiasm. So, to translate the phrase into 'likes' for Yankee readers, TIME isn't going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Alexander & Hennery | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from out in back of Lehigh Church says he likes to take a girl home from a picnic, only always makes him nervous until he has asked her. The other night he was going to take one home from the dance at Shamrock, but instead of saying, 'May I " walk home with you,' he said, It's akinda damp tonight.' The girl went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...interested in knowing that it was not taken from a homicidal striker, but was taken from an A & P store clerk, Maurice Needier,No. 2700 Market Street, who was returning peacefully from a picnic where he had used his machete to cut wood for a fire. Mr. Needier is now under indictment for carrying concealed weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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