Search Details

Word: staffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...woman," said the members of her hunt, but by week's end, as more & more farmers joined the boycott, the Blazers were hunting under police protection and there was more trouble ahead for them. Said Harry Walker, second whip of the hunt: "If Mrs. Hanbury goes, the kennel staff goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Good News for Foxes | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires, as the caskets were landed from a navy ship, flags flew at half-staff. Street lamps were draped in black. Along the route, as the bones of the San Martins were borne to the cathedral, thousands of schoolchildren lined the curbs. Whispered one to a neighbor: "Did you hear, pibe [chum], that next year they are going to bring back his horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: In a Son's Name | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...many party members he has, he was evasive. He did say they pay 25? a month dues, and call him Chef or Chief. He added: "It is like the army. You have your officers, and when the time comes you enlist your men. I have a keen and loyal staff of officers around me. My biggest problem is to keep them inactive. Every time I visit Montreal, I get the same question: 'Chief, when are we going to start?' " He hinted that the N.U.P. would "start" early next year. The party still has its old emblem-a torch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Interview at Lanoraie | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Married. Arthur Alan Compton, 29, U.S. State Department representative on UNESCO's staff, son of Nobel Physicist Arthur Holly Compton; and Nathalie Xenie Felser, 28, daughter of Parisian Banker Emanuel L. Felser; in Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Brushing Off the Webbs. In less time than it takes to say Emmeline Pankhurst, Rebecca West was in London writing literary criticism on the Freewoman's staff. A year later she was a full-fledged political writer on the old Socialist Clarion, and a member of that Socialist intellectual advance guard, the Fabian Society. Its pundits, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, had her in for dinner, but "I argued with the Webbs, so I was never invited back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | Next