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...last winter Heaven had grown too noisy for Sayville. Residents began to move from Macon Street. The village police force grew weary directing traffic, answering complaints against women who shrieked: "Peace! Peace! Oooooh, ain't it wonderful!" Nevertheless, Preacher Divine continued to feed & clothe a hundred-odd people, to serve six meals a day, each meal enormous. On his wall hung two signs. One said: "PEACE. CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND INTOXICATING LIQUORS NOT ALLOWED. IT'S WONDERFUL." The other: "NOTICE. VISITORS AND CALLERS NOT ALLOWED UPSTAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God in Sayville | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...Osborne, thereby getting out of the red morally, but broiling for it. Last shot: Robinson's wide writhing mouth pleading up at the judge for two minutes, "You're killing me at the wrong time. You should have killed me when I was taking his money. It ain't fair to let a rat live and kill a man. It ain't fair. It ain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Incidentally, let's set aright another error: You quoted Will Rogers, "I guess he (Murray) ain't got much chance.'' Here's a clipping of Will's statement to a Daily Oklahoman reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1932 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...practical joker. He it was who, looking from his apartment window, once saw a woman in an apartment across the street disporting herself with a male caller. Spying the woman's name on a modiste's advertisement card in the window, he telephoned her, saying: "This is God. Ain't you ashamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nisht Gehdelt | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...show him the impossibility of getting a cut from the Chancellor of New York University. The result was that he set up his own university, Carnasie, hired a coach, and proceeded to weld old wrestlers and pugs into an eleven. For, according to the coach, "opening, a university ain't much different to opening a speakeasy...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/5/1932 | See Source »

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