Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I am getting behind in my knowledge of slang, but where did you get the name "juke box" for nickel phonographs in your article about Glenn Miller? (TIME, Nov. 27). In Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, everyone calls them "Groan Boxes" and the expression, "Flip a nickel in the groan," is generally understood...
Might as well beat the ladies to this one. Is Charles Boyer as bald as your cut on p, 60, TIME, Dec. 4, would have us movie fans believe...
...TIME (Dec. 4-Education "School-marm") I was surprised to learn that a one-room schoolmarm would pay boys 15? a week for chores. From my experience in a one-room school I found that the pupils thought it a great privilege to get away from that inimitable humdrum of a one-room school to gather wood and fetch water. To the teacher it was a relief to be rid for awhile of the annoyances of the slothful, ne'er-do-well pupils...
...carriers of water and the hewers of wood were never encouraged to hurry, for both the teacher and boys knew that it was drudgery and took much time. Each understood the other's surreptitiousness...
...back many, fond memories. I spent the first eight years of my schooling in just such an institution including the black stove in the centre of the room. Such an educational beginning has always seemed to me to be adequate, providing one is a consistent and thorough reader of TIME...