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...Jewish] progeny and their [obscene synonym for "females"] become a burden on German funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: These Individuals! | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst complains that his malady of shingles has not a high-sounding name (TIME, May 30, p. 40). May I suggest "Herpes Zoster" ... as a synonym to spirit, if not to body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Protesting that womanhood had been slandered, ardent feminisia at the Harvard Employees' Union last night launched violent opposition to the CRIMSON'S use of the latter as a synonym for maids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BIDDY", "GOODY" DISPUTANTS FIND REBUFF IN WEBSTER'S | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...members. Vigorous President Jacobus has punched it back to the fairway with 1,867 members by astute promotion of which a sample is the PGA Code of Ethics which he likes to circulate over his signature. Excerpt: "The name 'Professional Golfer' must be and remain a synonym and pledge of honor, service and fair dealing. His professional integrity, fidelity to the game of golf, and a sense of his great responsibility to employers and employes, manufacturers and clients and to his brother professionals, transcend thought of material gain in the motives of the true Professional Golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Golf Ball Crackdown | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...which read "NO TIPPING. Our waiters are glad to serve you without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity" in France-was out to make just such big news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No More Tipping? | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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