Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country has broken out in a rash of airplane companies, if one credits the flow of items which bubble up each morning to attract the newspaper reader. The latest project is a New York-to-Chicago airway; there to connect with the Chicago-and-San Francisco planes, already operating. The fare will be $400; the flying time 32 hours. Trains take 90 hours; cost...
...supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen had an air so sly as that of Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, who carried a precious package...
...take the children to school, lock up the house, and act as burglar alarms. On the other hand, why not let telephone people keep at their development of communication-telephone, telephoto, television, and what next? H. B. MclNTYRE Division Engineer New England Tel. & Tel. Co. Providence, R. I. Strawberry Rash...
Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...
...Correspondent Frank R. Kent.-ED *TIME did not strain after such far-fetched conceits as "inhaling strawberries" but declared: "The strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Briand of France. . . Soon ... a rash broke out on M. Briand. (TIME, July 4.)-ED. †Cyril H. D. Dillington-Dowse (TIME, June 13)-ED. *An error. Eight-point or brevier is used. On the Letter Page, six-point...