Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loyal reader of TIME. It occurs to me to make a suggestion that a questionnaire having as its theme "Why Don't You Visit England?" would bring out all manner of interesting comments and criticisms which would reveal to us on this side things we ought to put right if more and more American visitors, who would greatly be welcomed, are to come to us. I pass the suggestion on to you in this rough way. It would, I think, produce most interesting material. SYDNEY WALTON* London, England Let readers say why they do not visit England, why they...
...table like two horseshoes laid end to end was spread in the Hall of the Americas at the Pan-American Union Building. Mr. Gann found his seat seventh from the foot of one horseshoe. On his left was Mrs. William Braden, wife of the Chilean copper operator. On his right was a Mrs. Paul Wooton, wife of the Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...Gann, no talker in Society, heard those about him discuss the Junoesque lady in a silver lace dress seated so grandly at the right hand of the diminutive Ambassador Davila at one end of the table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph...
Always a timesaver, Speaker Longworth reduced to less than a minute the ceremony of swearing in the whole House membership. Heretofore the oath was administered to groups of 20. This time all members stood together. Each raised his right hand. The Speaker carefully read the oath. A thunderous "I do" rolled solemnly through the chamber as 402 members swore all at once...
...will stand right out and make a little...