Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs : At a large gathering here a friend said he was sure the Hughes flight proved something -just what it was he thought the Editor of TIME might reveal. Will you tell me who put up the money...
...perused the TIME of July 11 most assiduously in order to be satiated by your weekly repast and was very comfortably feasting when I was suddenly shocked by the caption "Darkie's Horses" on p. 26 under Sport. Certainly I thought, "my eyes are deceiving me. I must be partaking of the feast more rapidly than is good for my digestive apparatus...
When the Bermuda railway was completed in 1931, many local patriots violently opposed it by stealing out at night, driving spikes intended to derail trains. This the Assembly thought no joke, legislated that in Bermuda attempting to wreck a train is punishable by 15 years in jail, squelched the wrecks...
That's me all over, thought each of the 125 jobhunters who last week answered advertisements for an "Honest man with moral qualifications wanted to play the part of Sir Galahad." The man in search of a Galahad was Franciscan Patrick Mc-Carthy of St. Christopher's Inn, Graymoor. N. Y. Chosen Galahad, after two hours of auditions and soul searchings, was 17-year-old Business-Schoolboy Ralph Welliver...
...Then the Associated Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly: "I'm taller than Helen Hayes." (Miss Hayes's height: five feet...