Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Before receipt of this letter from England, TIME had been faithfully corrected by 62 eagle-eyed U. S. geographers.-ED. Pop Corn, Cashier, Governor Sirs: Your issue of Dec. 1 carries a TIMEworthy account of the recent election-accurate and to the point. Except perversely enough your illustration was the likeness of Frank ("Chief") Haucke and not that of Governor-elect Woodring. Also Elk City, Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring...
...Companionate Marriage") Lindsey received a court scolding in Manhattan last week for causing a rumpus in Bishop William Thomas Manning's cathedral (TIME, Dec. 15). Bishop Manning refused to prosecute. So subsided the affair, except for a limerick composed by Protestant Episcopal clergymen who dislike Bishop Manning. The limerick...
...years ago. A traveler by inclination, he knows especially well the Near East, Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. Credited with knowing more about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March...
...beauty once, Why don't they say it now? And when attempts were made to raise him up, he persisted in crying out, 'Father, the Sepoys are coming! Let us repel them!"3 In the recipes for drinks Editors Hunt & Chappell stick strictly to business, except for one slip: Kummel Ye Faithful. Only venture into antiquity: the "authentic and secret recipe" for the Ramos Fizz...
...word, the "forced laborers" are former kulaks (rich farmers) dispossessed of their land by the Soviet program of "collectivizing farms." With grim humor, Mr. Knickerbocker was told that in Russia rich farmers had never worked before, would not work except under some compulsion, are now being "taught to work...