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...porches. Whenever he could obtain work of that sort no matter how badly he needed clothes he would first always subscribe to two or three years of TIME Magazine. And he kept every copy since 1931. He also had a loose-leaf notebook he had indexed as to reference he could refer to back any year. There were so many copies I had to keep them in the garage, some in the attic. But this May 1937 Sunday, he was home here in Springfield from Cincy, the last thing he said was, "Mother please don't ever destroy...
...Greene: "I must beg of you, Mr. Savile, that you will not refer to the English Church as if it were some female of your acquaintance. I tell you, I cannot digest my dinner if you will talk...
Your erudite editors and readers have both proved resourceful in coining words. ... I sincerely hope that a name can be suggested which . . . the people of this land and our neighbors south and north will gladly welcome ... to refer to a "native of the United States...
...that after a year and a half of marriage to his American-born Duchess, the Duke of Windsor now calls a dinner jacket a "tux," a wireless a "radio," occasionally emits the word "cute." But he still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...
...thing people must learn," said he, "is not to refer to these people as just Indians. It doesn't make sense. Nowhere in Europe can you find as much difference between nations. ..." Lanky, ebullient Director d'Harnoncourt showed the difference in seven cunningly designed rooms: fine basketry and feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes...