Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, and the leaders of his 23 districts. Boss Curry hitherto had made scant front-page news; now he made it with a vengeance by storming out of the courtroom because he had been asked to waive his immunity. Cried he to newsmen: "I've been insulted...
...which they considered their personal property, a super-monopolistic state has risen able to play this game, eager to try, likely to bungle the colossal gamble. Hyde's Idea. In Moscow grim smiles last week greeted U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde's naïve idea (TIME, Sept. 29) that Dictator Stalin "cannot" throw actual grain into the World market to cover his short sales because right now "the Russians find it necessary to ration their own people and to shoot men for forging food cards!" This is exactly what Moscow...
Managers. Silver-haired Connie Mack, proud, taciturn, scientific, drills his squad at blackboard baseball until they are dizzy. Said he recently: "I hesitated to call these boys one of my greatest teams because they have only won a single world's series. But after the way they've played this year I may as well say I think they're among the best that ever wore a uniform with an elephant...
...corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Six pence; The Gentleman in the Parlour (TIME, May 5); (plays): East of Suez, The Circle, The Letter...
...matter where you are. A little tin box of chocolate tablets fits in the pockets of your overalls or it fits in the pocket of your fine longtail dinner coat. That settles it." And the copy continued on the theme: "Happiness isn't a matter of location?you've got to carry it with...