Word: overly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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The Author. Henry Baerlein was born in Manchester, England, on April Fool's Day 55 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...
Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as...
THE LIONS' DEN-Janet Fairbank- Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50).† When young Daniel Carson was elected Congressman from his Wisconsin district, he went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to...
To Washington last week in the new Fokker "flying wing" observation plane (TIME, Sept. 29) flew Pilot-Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker and Fokker Engineer Stephen A. Forberger, co-designer of the craft. Over the city's outskirts one of the Fokker's gasoline tanks ran dry, cutting both...
In the smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which...