Word: thanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIFE for Oct. 18, I find the following statement: "For the classical learning which has made him a sonorous orator and suave companion of the rich and great, the boss of C. I. O. can thank the course of reading laid out for him by the Iowa school-teacher whom he married...
...Madrid have eaten few delicacies during the last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before becoming a poultry farmer on the Castilian plateau...
...keep their eyes open when walking in Forest Hills that your reporter described the tennis matches on both occasions while reclining in his bathtub or sipping a mint julep in the cloistered halls of some Manhattan bar. The trees which were planted here 20 years ago are doing nicely, thank you, and can be seen readily with the naked...
When a big Royal Dutch Indies Airliner crashed near Palembang, Sumatra, four people were killed, famed Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann broke bones in his left arm and right hand. "I shall never be able to play again," he moaned, "but thank God nothing worse happened to me!" Doctors assured him, however, that since his muscles did not appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java...
...Thank you for your letter of Sept. 9 with the enclosed copy of TIME'S Sept. 13 issue describing the new supernova. Everything in the article is straight except two points to which I call your attention for possible future occasion...