Word: readings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain a guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television, 5) look at a March oj Time cinema, 6) sit, relax...
...mots on the news, quotations from the philosophers. During the War, L'Oeuvre's, editors became so clever at making horrid cracks at the Government through outwardly innocent references to the weather or some theatrical success that Anastasie (the Censorship) cracked down. Last week Paris oldsters read a manchette that set them to reminiscing about the great battles between Anastasie and L'Oeuvre. With the Censorship again slashing through the French press, L'Oeuvre had printed in the broad white space to the right of its mast, in tiny letters, the word Chut! (Shush...
...Oxford who crusades with equal fervor for good beer, sensible divorce laws and the King's English, broke a lance against the windmill of officialese. Said he, if Nelson's famed signal ("England expects every man to do his duty") were repeated today, it would read: "England anticipates that as regards the current emergency, personnel will face up to the issues and exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective occupation groups...
...Washington, D. C. When Mary Ellen Appleby, daughter of Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture Paul H. Appleby, was a little girl, she was terrified of every kind of insect ("I'd run a mile from a daddy long-legs") except fireflies, which she loved. She began to read up on fireflies, learned a lot of things about them-for example, that what makes them flash is a luminous substance called luciferin secreted in their abdomens, that most entomologists believe the flash is a mating call. Mary Ellen does not plan to be an entomologist, however. At college...
...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...