Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recount that:-Place of bread in the diet is changing due to changing eating and buying habits...
...this week's Miscellany (TIME, June 24) you recount the incident of a "snipper'' in Boston. You were so prompt and authoritative in identifying the recent case of transvestism that I wondered why you failed to spot this case of a snipper who did not know why he snipped girls' hair off, as body-fetichism. I was long a victim of this peculiar aberration, and only beat it when I identified it, as I did by chance when a copy of Krafft-Ebbing fell into my hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months...
...Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary of the Baldwin government. In the West Birmingham constituency which his late great father, "Joe" Chamberlain, pillar of Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a lead of only 50 votes over his Labor opponent. Incredulous, he demanded a recount. His lead then shrank to 43. In contrast, Sir Austen's humbler young halfbrother, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, won what the London Times called "the most outstanding Conservative personal victory," a majority...
Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls. Pieced together, the fragments recount Cavender, a man, virile, sensitive, arrogant, none too faithful to Laramie, his charming wife. Suspecting that she in turn had been unfaithful to him, he dashed her over a cliff. When early workmen found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified...
...candidacy. He entered his name for the West Virginia presidential primary at the end of May. The likelihood of his accomplishing anything at Kansas City in June was about as remote as Mr. Davis's chance of winning the 1924 election now by a recount. Nevertheless, Guy Despard Goff will be West Virginia's Favorite Republican Son, just as Senator Watson is Indiana's and Senator Curtis is Kansas' and the late Senator Willis was Ohio...