Word: tine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williams of Spokane and Victor Grant Jones of Seattle heard of babies who swallowed open safety pins. Accordingly they invented last week what they called a really safe safety pin. It has a reversed spring, so that pressure is necessary to pull the pin open, and the tine when released springs back into its socket...
...roared, "I say have mercy, damn it!" Although God and My Father had value as a recapture of middle-class religious beliefs and customs in New York's 1890's, readers were more interested in the brief, incidental provocative glimpses of the Day household, the rou-tine domestic crises, the wifely art with which Mrs. Day controlled her thundering husband...
...injustices committed under a laissez-faire capitalism, must remember that this country was built up through the efforts of ruggedly individualistic capitalists; these men did great things and are so deserving of thanks. But conditions have changed; the frontier is gone and great industrial organizations have developed. The tine has come for social responsibility; but it is not now, and there never will be, a time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely no desire to ameliorate...
...outfit in a shop window, returned to the Canadian wilderness, went back to England to write wilderness stories (Pierre and His People). His novels of the French regime in the New World were as widely read as Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic reportings. He married Manhattan Heiress Amy Van Tine in 1895, was knighted in 1902, raised...
...large & worldly woman, termed "une grosse jemme," the average Frenchman sees small merit. In a small & worldly woman, "tine petite fille," he sees great merit. Fortnight ago French Justice was generous to small Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger ("Miss St. Louis 1923"). She was acquitted at Nice of murdering her U. S. husband, after confessing that she shot him at the black end of a jealous quarrel (TIME, June 1, et ante). Last week large Texas Guinan got no French generosity whatever, was held at Havre in a room with barred windows, having as furniture three iron beds and one spittoon...