Word: mines
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Zorn dropped a sackful of her tears in the Duke's lap, and sailed off with the princess for "the distant shining shores of Ever After." The Duke "showed his lower teeth" and muttered disconsolately: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." A little while later there was a smell of old unopened rooms; then there was a sound of rabbits screaming; then there was a gleep; and then there wasn't any Duke in Coffin Castle...
...there was a periodical issued called Time, more or less along the lines of your TIME, featuring articles and sketches that were then of current interest. I understand that copies of that old print are now very rare indeed. I have, however, looked through one, as a friend of mine who is a bookworm has a copy which he values highly. There is a sharp contrast between the TIME of today and the Time of the other days...
...Chinese Communists surged into burning Pyongyang and its port, Chinnampo. At the port some 7,000 allied wounded and civilians were evacuated by sea. Six U.N. destroyers steamed 30 miles up the mine-infested Taedong estuary to a dangerous night rendezvous with the transports, then shelled Chinnampo's port installations into wreckage...
...three Yalies dressed in raccoon coats, and hence to illustrate a fashion trend at Yale. One of these men is a stranger to me, but I am willing to be that he is no Yale man, because the two with he is shown are fellow Princeton '45 classmates of mine. The fellow in the middle is Jim Mills, and on the right stands Pete Throop. Both got their raccoon coats at Princeton long ago. Both graduated from Yale Law, class of '50. And a closer look at the third man, who is shown only side view, convinces me that...
...rather fatuously wrote (in 1933) to U.S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Rome that he was "deeply impressed" by Mussolini's intention "to prevent general European trouble," and, with a cheerful egalitarian touch, recommended Ambassador Robert Bingham to Britain's King George V as "an old friend of mine and . . . like you, a good shot...