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...shake hands with him, because physical contact made them slightly sick (it was only by overcoming extreme distaste that most Astromental married couples managed to produce the regulation one-child family). They chirped away politely in Monolingua-the global language in which it was impossible to say anything unkind. "Is this your first trip to California?" asked one of the ladies, who looked devastating in the gold wig that covered her bald astromentality (all Astromentalists were bald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 100,000 Years Hence | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

This testimonial, typical of thousands, is the best explanation of why the networks ignore unkind critics of the soap opera. The housewives love it. Consequently, nearly 40 daytime serials, heard Monday through Friday, fill more U.S. radio time with spurious heart throbs than any other type of show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Suds Can Be Beautiful | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...papers, Captain Joseph Patterson's huge New York Daily News had unkind words to say last week about the U.S. national anthem. The reasons the Daily News advanced for retiring The Star-Spangled Banner were, however, characteristically ambiguous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: This Ponderous Piece | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Texas. The Colonel met the then Miss Googins at a livestock show in Fort Worth, married her in 1933, five days after he was divorced by his first wife, Elizabeth, mother of William Donner Roosevelt, 12. Elliott was later dropped from the Social Register. Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt charged "unkind, harsh and tyrannical conduct," asked for the custody of their three children: Ruth Chandler, 9; Elliott Jr. ("Tony"), 7; David Boynton, 2. Colonel Roosevelt was rumored to be currently interested in Winston Churchill's daughter, Mary, and a WAC captain abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...York City's Department of Health got 1,526 complaints about heatless apartments. In many another locality, especially along the Eastern seaboard, shivering householders eyed their dwindling coal bins and thought unkind thoughts about John L. Lewis. Patriots who had converted from oil to coal had an extra curse for Harold L. Ickes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARTIME LIVING: Minimum Comfort | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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