Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your story on the general wrongness of Genevieve Tabouis was very fine (TIME, Dec. 11). However you say that this remarkable wrong-way prophet is taken more seriously in England and the U. S. A. than in her native France. In London Mme Tabouis is not taken seriously by "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton), Beaverbrook's amusing columnist for his two-million-circulation Daily Express. To "Beachcomber," Tabouis is Mme Tabouche (of L'Oeuf) who is continually seeking fulfillment of her prophecy that Iceland will march on Bessarabia...
...appeased. "In the interest of law and order in Erie County," the Buffalo Evening News last week proposed that the New York Legislature let Erie County elect no more sheriffs, perhaps substitute a non-political employe under Civil Service. Buffalo and Erie County have come a long way since 1872. Their sheriff then was Grover Cleveland, who later was to be called the only U. S. President who ever hanged...
Last week Congressman Melvin J. Maas, of St. Paul, Minn., proposed that the U. S. Navy build 80,000-ton battleships - nearly twice the size of two mighty monsters now on the way. Horrified admirals paid attention to Mr. Maas only because: 1) he is the ranking Republican on the House Naval Affairs Committee; and 2) his remarks were symptomatic of a tendency on the part of Navy-minded Congressmen to dream for themselves...
...this early life his colleagues sometimes suspected Koba or Ivanovich of buying leniency for himself by handing over their names to the police. Another strange coincidence they noted was that frequently when the comrades got into a tough spot with the police, and had to fight their way out, Koba was rarely on hand...