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...Love You, I Love You, I Love You. In Camden, N.J., nervous Mrs. Nellie Worth sued for divorce, complained that her husband hid her clothes, hid her false teeth, put itching powder in her bed, and strung a rope across the stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Japanese had taken strong offensive steps, great risks, with a threefold purpose of establishing: 1) a defensive outpost;* 2) a base threatening potential supply routes to Russia's eastern frontier; 3) the first step on a stairway'that might lead to large-scale offensive action against the continental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Invasion | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...under 45 who is able to make plans for the future." (Taft's age: 52.) Essayist E. B. White wrote in Harper's: "We are the tough old campaigners-a little puffy round the girth strap, faltering a little at the top step of the long stairway, subsisting on bicarbonate of soda and ephedrine sulphate, our pocketbooks lined with silver and our back teeth with gold, but ready to go forth again to distant peninsulas against old enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense - MANPOWER: Men Over 35 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...picture of Willis Geisman leading his company in review in Shanghai hangs over the stairway. Over the living room mantelpiece hangs another: Willis Geis man in the uniform of a Marine lieutenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Sudden Death | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...marble stairway which winds around a long chandelier chain goes up to the Keats Memorial Room, and to a long corridor occupied by collections of Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, and other modern authors. The remainder of the top floor is still in the possession of the painters and carpenters. In the other direction, the stairs wind down to the Department of Graphic Arts, the seminar room, and administration offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 3/3/1942 | See Source »

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