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...Pluto was unlucky. Drawing lots with his brothers Jupiter and Neptune (Saturn was their father, Rhea their mother) for the kingdoms of heaven, sea and the infernal regions, Pluto got Hades. Previously named for Pluto: a purgative water, a species of monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...Pluto was the name announced by Roger Lowell Putnam, spokesman for Lowell observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) as having been chosen for the New Planet discovered from there this year (TIME. March 24). "We felt . . . that the line of Roman gods for whom the other planets are named should not be broken," explained Mr. Putnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...liquid fire. Sweeten with one teaspoonful of pulverized white sugar, and serve in a small bar tumbler, with a piece of lemon peel. ... A beholder gazing for the first time upon an experienced artist compounding this beverage, would naturally come to the conclusion that it was a nectar for Pluto rather than Bacchus. The novice in mixing this beverage should be careful not to scald himself. To become proficient in throwing the liquid from one mug to the other, it will be necessary to practice for some time with cold water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to Mix | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...which continues throughout June is already upon us. Everywhere prominent men are drawn back from the arena to the cloister for a day to exhort with the Senior suddenly become Freshman again. Too often these sermons from high finance, high politics, or high poetics, are stodgy, or sentimental, or pluto-patriotic, or even cheap pamphleteering. Mr. McAdoo, for instance, has taken advantage of his position as commencement orator to wave the black flag of the Anti-Saloon League and then attempt to pull a Houdini on his audience by telling them it is identical with the American flag. Such political...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PUBLIC SERVICE | 6/8/1927 | See Source »

...heretical Freshmen. Here I sit down to solve the "Why and the Wherefore, and if not why-not," of the euclitic 'thee' in 'prithee'. Since I am, of course, posted in advance of the questions which are going to be asked, I am also ready to distinguish between Plato, Pluto, Plutarch, Pliny, and Petrarch, and if necessary to write a limerick...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE GRIME | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

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