Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply know by intuition that the nice old man Mrs. Phipps saw on the subway reading TIME was my brother. He is most distinguished looking, and he sits up very straight when he reads TIME or any other magazine or newspaper, just as Mrs. Phipps described him. Won't she write and say what he was wearing...
...Gentleman" that Mrs. Charles Phips* saw on the subway was some of your hired help...
Sirs : I believe I must have been the old gentleman" whom Mrs. Charles Phipps (TIME, Feb. 14) recently saw on the subway reading a copy of TIME. Perhaps, however, I may set her right in the mistaken impression that I turned and spoke to a stranger at my side about the excellence of an article in TIME. The gentleman, Charles Edgar Bowdoin, is my colleague of many years. That we should have been mistaken for strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN...
...suppose I went mad when I saw how he would be tortured before he could die . . . long hours in the scorching sun . . . the insects . . . jackals eating his head. . . I grabbed a stick, and made for the grave. But in a moment ten or fifteen tribesmen had me down. [It was lucky I did not suffer the same fate as the French officer, who died two days later...
...father, famed States man Tang Shao-yi, sent her to college in the U. S. she naturally chose Barnard. There, in Manhattan, the vastly rich young girl could both study and taste very nearly all the U. S. has to offer-except "scenery." (She traveled during vacations. She saw.) At an age when Smith and Wellesley girls are translucent she was as opaque and baffling to a diplomat as to a dowager...